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

 

 

Return to Main Information Page