Close Corporations Act, 1984 (Act No. 69 of 1984)Part III : Registration, Deregistration and Conversion19. Undesirable names and reservation of names |
(1) | Part A of Chapter 2 of the Companies Act, read with the changes required by the context, applies to a corporation and to an applicant for name reservation in terms of subsection (2), but— |
(a) | a reference in any of those provisions to a company must be regarded as a reference to a corporation for the purposes of this Act; and |
(b) | the application of section 11(4) of the Companies Act to a corporation is subject to the provisions of section 22(1) of this Act. |
(2) | Any person who intends to form a corporation or any corporation which intends to change its name may apply to the Registrar for the reservation of a name, on the prescribed form and on payment of the prescribed fee. |
[Section 19 substituted by section 224, item 4(1) of Schedule 3(A), of Notice No. 421 dated 9 April 2009]