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Close Corporations Act, 1984 (Act No. 69 of 1984)

Part III : Registration, Deregistration and Conversion

19. Undesirable names and reservation of names

 

(1) Part A of Chapter 2 of the Companies Act, read with the changes required by the context, applies to a corporation and to an applicant for name reservation in terms of subsection (2), but—
(a) a reference in any of those provisions to a company must be regarded as a reference to a corporation for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) the application of section 11(4) of the Companies Act to a corporation is subject to the provisions of section 22(1) of this Act.

 

(2) Any person who intends to form a corporation or any corporation which intends to change its name may apply to the Registrar for the reservation of a name, on the prescribed form and on payment of the prescribed fee.

 

[Section 19 substituted by section 224, item 4(1) of Schedule 3(A), of Notice No. 421 dated 9 April 2009]