Companies (Identical Names) Regulations 2015

the name of any other company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership or corporation or to any registered business name, referred to in section 27(1)(b) of the Act;

a name reserved under any of the provisions referred to in section 27(1)(c) of the Act;

any name of a company, business name, name of a foreign company, name of a limited liability partnership or name of a limited partnership, referred to in section 27(1A) of the Act; and

any name of a foreign company, or name of a limited partnership, referred to in section 27(1B) of the Act.

“The”, where it is the first word of a name;

the following words where they appear at the end of a name:

“Berhad” or “Bhd”;

“Limited” or “Ltd”;

“Limited Liability Partnership” or “LLP”;

“Limited Partnership” or “LP”;

“Private” or “Pte”;

“Public Accounting Corporation” or “PAC”;

“Sendirian” or “Sdn”;

the following words or expressions where they appear at the end of a name:

“Asia”;

“Asia Pacific”;

“Associates”;

“company” or “and company”;

“corporation”;

“Group”;

“Holding” or “Holdings”;

“Incorporated”;

“International”;

“Partner” or “Partners”;

“Partnership” or “Partnerships”;

“Singapore”;

“South Asia”;

“South East Asia”;

“Trading”;

“Worldwide”;

“.co”;

“.com”;

“.edu”;

“.gov”;

“.net”;

“.org”;

“.sg”;

any word or expression which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is intended to represent any word or expression in —

sub‑paragraph (a) or (b); or

sub‑paragraph (c);

the plural version of any name;

the type and case of letters, accents, spacing between letters, brackets, parentheses and punctuation marks.

will be related within the meaning of section 6 of the Act to the proposed company to be registered under a proposed name; or

is related within the meaning of section 6 of the Act to the company applying to change its name to a proposed name.