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Limited Liability Partnerships Act
Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Rules
R 1
G.N. No. S 245/2005
REVISED EDITION 2007
(2nd July 2007)
[11th April 2005]
1. These Rules may be cited as the Limited Liability Partnerships (Identical Names) Rules.
2.
—(1) For the purposes of section 19(1)(b) and (c) of the Act —
(a)
in determining whether one name is identical to another, the following shall be disregarded:
(i)
“The”, where it is the first word of the name;
(ii)
“Limited Liability Partnership”, “LLP”, “Private”, “Pte”, “Sendirian”, “Sdn”, “Limited”, “Ltd”, “Berhad” and “Bhd”;
(iii)
the following words or expressions where they appear at the end of the name, except where the limited liability partnership and corporation concerned are related to each other:
“company”, “and company”, “corporation”, “Incorporated”, “Asia”, “Asia Pacific”, “International”, “Singapore”, “South Asia”, “South East Asia” and “Worldwide”;
(iv)
any word or expression which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is intended to represent any word or expression in sub-paragraph (iii), except where the limited liability partnership and corporation concerned are related to each other;
(v)
the plural version of the name;
(vi)
the type and case of letters, accents, spacing between letters, brackets, parenthesis and punctuation marks; and
(b)
the symbol “&” shall have the same meaning as the word “and”
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)(iii) and (iv), a limited liability partnership is related to a corporation if the corporation is a partner of the limited liability partnership and signifies its consent to the use of the name by that limited liability partnership.