C-38, r. 2 - Regulation respecting names of legal persons or associations governed by Part III of the Companies Act

Section 2 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

2. The name of a legal person is identical to the name of another person, partnership or group

(1)  even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a punctuation mark such as a period (.), a question mark (?), an exclamation point (!), a comma (,), a semi-colon (;), a colon (:), an ellipsis (…), parentheses ( ), square brackets [ ], quotation marks (“ ”), a dash (—), or a slash (/);

(2)  even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, an article (au, aux, de, de la, du, des, le, la, les, un, une) or a possessive adjective (mon, ton, son, ma, ta, sa, mes, tes, ses, notre, votre, leur, nos, vos, leurs);

(3)  even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a preposition (à, avec, chez, dans, de, hors, par, pour, sans…) or a conjunction (et) or its symbol (&);

(4)  even if it has, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a different spelling, but has the same pronunciation or sign (such as +);

(5)  even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a number in Arabic or Roman numerals having the same value;

(6)  even if it has, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a different syntax;

(7)  even if it has, for the purpose of making it distinctive, a different indication of the juridical form;

(8)  even if it contains, for the purpose of making it distinctive, an abbreviation, an aphaeresis (such as “pitaine” for “capitaine”) or an apocope (such as “télé” for “télévision”); or

(9)  a word that has no determinant nature, such as “association”, “compagnie”, “entreprise”, “personne morale” or “société”, or an abbreviation thereof.

O.C. 1857-93, s. 2.