Restricted words for a Company name
The following are a list of words or phrases that ASIC will reject in a company name. This list is not complete, and in some cases consent can be applied for with the appropiate body to use certain words.
- Identical name to an already incorporated company or business
- Offensive or undesirable names in the opinion of ASIC
- Includes the words Commonwealth or Federal, or suggests a connection with the crown, Government of a State or Territory, local authority, Government department or the government of a foreign country
- Suggests a connection with Royalty or ex-servicemen's organisation
- Sir Donald Bradman
- Mary MacKillop
- Aboriginal Corporation
- Aboriginal Council
- Chamber of Commerce
- Chamber of Manufactures
- Chartered
- Consumer
- Co-operative
- Executor
- Friendly Society (other than in relation to the conduct of a financial business)
- GST or G.S.T.
- Guarantee
- Incorporated
- Made in Australia
- police or policing
- RSL or R.S.L.
- Starr Bowkett
- Stock Exchange
- Torres Strait Islander Corporation
- Trust or Trustee
- Anzac
- Geneva Cross or Red Cross
- United Nations
- University
- Names relating to financial institutions where the consent from APRA is required:
ADI, bank, banker, banking, building society, credit society, credit union, friendly society
For more information contact ASIC www.asic.gov.au
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