P-45 - Act respecting the legal publicity of sole proprietorships, partnerships and legal persons

Section 13 Disposition versions

1994-01-01

13. No registrant may declare or use in Québec a name which

(1)  is not in conformity with the Charter of the French language (chapter C-11);

(2)  includes an expression which the law or the regulations reserve for another person or prohibit the registrant from using;

(3)  includes an expression that evokes an immoral, obscene or offensive notion;

(4)  incorrectly indicates the registrant’s juridical form or fails to indicate such form where so required by law, taking into account, in particular, the standards determined by regulation relating to the composition of names;

(5)  falsely suggests that the registrant is a non-profit group;

(6)  falsely suggests that the registrant is, or is related to, a public authority mentioned in the regulation;

(7)  falsely suggests that the registrant is related to another person, partnership or group, in particular, in the cases and taking into account the criteria determined by regulation;

(8)  may lead to confusion with a name used by another person, partnership or group in Québec, taking into account, in particular, the criteria determined by regulation;

(9)  is, in whatever manner, liable to mislead third persons.

Every registrant whose name is in a language other than French must declare the French version of the name used in Québec in carrying on activities, in operating an enterprise or for the purposes of the possession of an immovable real right, other than a prior claim or hypothec.

The second paragraph does not apply to a natural person who registers voluntarily and who, for that purpose, declares only his surname and given name.

1993, c. 48, s. 13.