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Section 65 of Partnerships Act 16 of 2012: Name of a limited partnership

    

(1) The name of a limited partnership shall have—
(a) the word “limited partnership”; or
(b) the abbreviation “lp” or “LP”, appearing at the end of its name.
(2) A partnership may not be registered in a name—
(a) which is the same as a name appearing in the index kept under the Companies Act (Cap. 486);
(b) the use of which would in the opinion of the Registrar constitute an offence; or
(c) which in the opinion of the Registrar is offensive.
(3) In determining for the purposes of this section, whether one name is the same as another, the Registrar shall have regard to the existence of otherwise of—
(a) the definite article as the first word of the name;
(b) any of the following, or abbreviations of them, at the end of the name—
(i) “limited partnership”;
(ii) “limited liability partnership”;
(iii) “company”;
(iv) “and company”;
(v) “company limited”;
(vi) “limited”;
(vii) “unlimited”;
(viii) “public limited company”;
(ix) “investment company with variable capita!”; or (c) “open-ended investment company”.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the type and case of letters, accents, spaces between letters and punctuation marks, and “and” and “&” shall be taken as the same.

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