216 Restriction on re-use of company names
Insolvency Act 1986 (1986 c 45) | Legislation

216  Restriction on re-use of company names

(1)     This section applies to a person where a company (“the liquidating company”) has gone into insolvent liquidation on or after the appointed day and he was a director or shadow director of the company at any time in the period of 12 months ending with the day before it went into liquidation.

(2)     For the purposes of this section, a name is a prohibited name in relation to such a person if—

(a)     it is a name by which the liquidating company was known at any time in that period of 12

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