Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 377

377. (1) A registered body may lodge an application to reserve a specified
name as the name to which the body has changed, or proposes to change, its
name.

(2) If the name is available to the body, the Commission shall reserve it in
respect of the body 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 registered body;
        and

   (b)  whether before or after the name is reserved, the body changed or
        changes its name to that reserved name; the Commission shall register
        the new name in respect of the body and, where the Commission does so:

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

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

(4) Where:

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

   (b)  the body 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.