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Co-operative Housing and Starr-Bowkett Societies Act 1998
81Requirements for and restrictions on names
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#### 81 Requirements for and restrictions on names
81 Requirements for and restrictions on names
> > (1) The name of a co-operative housing society must include the words “co-operative housing society” or “co-op housing society”.
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> > (2) The name of a Starr-Bowkett society must include the word “Starr-Bowkett”.
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> > (3) The name of an association must include the word “co-operative” or “co-op”.
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> > (4) The name of a Starr-Bowkett society or an association must end with the word “Limited” or the abbreviation “Ltd”. The name of a co-operative housing society must not include the word “Limited” or any abbreviation of that word.
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> > (5) The Registrar must not register a proposed co-operative housing body’s rules, or an alteration of rules affecting a co-operative housing body’s name, if the Registrar is of the opinion that the name for the proposed body or body—
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> > > (a) is the name of a co-operative housing body, or
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> > > (b) is reserved or registered for a financial institution or proposed financial institution under the financial institutions legislation, or
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> > > (c) is reserved or registered for a body corporate under the Corporations Act, or
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> > > (d) is on the national business names register, or
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> > > (e) is likely to be confused with a name mentioned in paragraphs (a)–(d), or
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> > > (f) is undesirable.
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> > (6) The Registrar may direct a co-operative housing body to change its name if, through inadvertence or otherwise, the body is registered by a name that the Registrar is satisfied is a name that would not be permissible under this section.
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> **s 81:** Am 2001 No 34, Sch 4.11 \[11\].