Proposed Name of Company
A company has the option to choose its own name. There are several requirements for the field.
- Proprietary limited companies should contain the words proprietary and limited. The following abbreviations are also accepted:
- Proprietary Limited
- Proprietary Ltd
- Proprietary Ltd.
- Ltd.
- Pty Ltd
- Limited
- Pty Limited
- Several words are not allowed to be used such as:
- Bank
- Trust
- Royal
- Incorporated
- King
- Queen
- RSL
- Unusual words for a Company Name will prompt you to use manual processing
- Only ASCII characters are allowed to be used in the field. (ie: Special characters). (Click on this link for the list of accepted characters: Steps to register a company)
- If any of the requirements are not met, a red color image will be displayed in the field
- You should select “No” on "Use ACN as company name?" from the drop-down menu
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