Variable Capital Companies (Identical Names) Regulations 2020

the name of any other VCC or any company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership or corporation or to any registered business name, mentioned in section 21(1)(b) of the Act;

a name reserved under any of the provisions mentioned in section 21(1)(c) of the Act;

any name of a VCC, name of a company, business name, name of a foreign company, name of a limited liability partnership or name of a limited partnership, mentioned in section 21(2) of the Act; and

any name of a foreign company or a limited partnership mentioned in section 21(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”;

“Fund”;

“Limited” or “Ltd”;

“Limited Liability Partnership” or “LLP”;

“Limited Partnership” or “LP”;

“Private” or “Pte”;

“Public Accounting Corporation” or “PAC”;

“Sendirian” or “Sdn”;

“Variable Capital Company” or “VCC”;

“Vehicle”;

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 4 of the Act to the proposed VCC to be registered under a proposed name; or

is related within the meaning of section 4 of the Act to the VCC applying to change its name to a proposed name.