Business Names Registration (Identical Names) Regulations 2015

any other registered business name, or the name of any corporation or limited partnership referred to in section 17(1)(b) of the Act;

any name reserved under any of the provisions referred to in section 17(1)(c) of the Act;

any business name, or name of a company, foreign company, limited liability partnership or limited partnership, referred to in section 17(2) of the Act; and

any name of a foreign company, or name of a limited partnership, referred to in section 17(3) 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.