The Companies Act 2006 contains various powers of the Secretary of State to direct a company to change its name. This section inserts into various direction issuing powers of Part 5 Companies Act 2006 provisions which allow the Registrar to omit from the material that is available for public inspection references to the company’s name, where the company has been given a direction to change its name. The amendments inserted by this section brings all direction issuing powers to parity, allowing the Registrar to omit material from the public register whenever necessary.
Part 1: Companies House Reform Company names Section 14: Requirements to change name: removal of old name from public inspection