ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
The Companies (General) Regulations
10. Characters permitted to be used in company's name
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
10. Characters permitted to be used in company's name
(1)For the purposes of section 52 of the Act, the characters, signs, symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) and punctuation set out Part 1 of the Sixth Schedule can be used in the name of a company registered or to be registered under the Act.(2)The following characters can be used in any part of a company name:(a)any character that has an accent or other diacritical mark, sign or symbol set out in Part 1 of the Sixth Schedule;(b)0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9;(c)a full stop, comma, colon, semi-colon or hyphen;(d)any other punctuation referred to in column 1 of Part 2 of the Sixth Schedule but only in one of the forms set out opposite that punctuation in column 2 of that Part.(3)The signs and symbols set out in Part 3 of the Sixth Schedule are characters that can be used but not if they are one of the first three characters of a company's name.(4)The name of a company may not consist of more than 160 permitted characters.