New Zealand Legislation: Acts

22 Application for reservation of name

• (1) An application for reservation of the name of a company must be sent or delivered to the Registrar, and must be in the prescribed form.

  (2) The Registrar must not reserve a name—

  • (a) The use of which would contravene an enactment; or

  • (b) That is identical or almost identical to the name of another company or another company under the Companies Act 1955; or

  • (c) That is identical or almost identical to a name that the Registrar has already reserved under this Act or the Companies Act 1955 and that is still available for registration; or

  • (d) That, in the opinion of the Registrar, is offensive.

  (3) The Registrar must advise the applicant by notice in writing—

  • (a) Whether or not the Registrar has reserved the name; and

  • (b) If the name has been reserved, that, unless the reservation is sooner revoked by the Registrar, the name is available for registration of a company with that name or on a change of name for 20 working days after the date stated in the notice.

  Subsection (3)(b) was amended, as from 1 July 1994, by section 2 Companies Act 1993 Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 6) by inserting the words “, unless the reservation is sooner revoked by the Registrar,”.