Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 358

358. (1) The Commission shall not register a body corporate under Division 1
or 2 unless the body's name is reserved under section 376 in respect of the
body.

(2) A registered body shall not use a name in a State or Territory unless:

   (a)  the body is registered under that name under Division 1 or 2; or

   (b)  the name is registered in respect of the body under the law in force
        in that State or Territory relating to business names.

(3) Subject to this section, where a registered body lodges in accordance with
section 361 notice of particulars of a change in the body's name, the
Commission shall alter the register it keeps for the purposes of Division 1 or
2, as the case requires, by substituting the body's new name for the name by
which the body was previously registered.

(4) The Commission shall not register under subsection (3) a change in a
registered body's name unless the name to which the body proposes to change
its name is reserved under section 377 in respect of the body.