Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 375

375. (1) A company may lodge an application to reserve a specified name as the
name to which the company proposes to change its name.

(2) If the name is available to the company, the Commission shall reserve it
in respect of the company for 2 months after the date of lodgment of the
application.

(3) Where:

   (a)  a name is reserved under this section in respect of a company; and

   (b)  the company changes its name to that name under section 382; the
        Commission shall register the new name in respect of the company and,
        where the Commission does so:

   (c)  the new name is no longer reserved in respect of the company; and

   (d)  the Commission shall cancel the registration, in respect of the
        company, of the name by which the company was registered before it
        changed its name.

(4) Where:

   (a)  a name is reserved under this section in respect of a company; and

   (b)  the company informs the Commission in writing that it no longer wishes
        the name to be reserved in respect of it; the Commission shall cancel
        the reservation.

(5) The reservation of a name under this section in respect of a company does
not of itself entitle the company to change its name to that name.