Part 2
11 Name of company
RSA 2000
(a) that is known by the Regist rar to be the same as the name of
an existing corporation,
(b) that suggests or implies a connection with the Crown or any
member of the Royal family or the Government of Canada
or the government of any province or territory of Canada or
any department, branch, bureau, service, agency or activity
of any such government without the consent in writing of
the appropriate authority,
(c) that includes the word "co-operative" or any abbreviation or
derivation thereof, or
(d) that in the opinion of the Registrar is objectionable.
(2) A company shall not be incorporated under this Act under a
name that is known by the Registrar to be the same as that of a
dissolved corporation.
(3) A company shall not be incorporated under this Act under a
name that is known to the Registrar to be similar to the name of
any other company if the use of that name by the company would
be likely to deceive, unless the other company consents in writing
to its name being given in whole or in part to the company and, if
required by the Registrar, undertakes to dissolve or to change its
name within 6 months after the incorporation of the company.
(4) Where a company gives an undertaking to dissolve or change
its name and the undertaking is not carried out within 6 months, the
Registrar may, by notice in writing, giving the Registrar's reasons,
direct the company to change its name to one that the Registrar
approves within 60 days after the date of the notice.
(5) If a company, through inadvertence or otherwise, has been or is
given a name that is the same as or is similar to the name of any
other company that has previously been carrying on business or
been incorporated in Alberta or that is objectionable for any reason,
the Registrar, after the Registrar has given notice to the company of
the Registrar's intention to do so, may by order change the name of
the company.
(6) Repealed 1984 c12 s3.
(7) Subsections (1), (3) and (4) do not apply to a company
incorporated by or under an Act of the Parliament of Canada.
(8) Repealed 2020 c25 s2(6).
RSA 2000 cC-21 s11;2020 c25 s2(6)
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