Company Law Enforcement Act, 2001

Repeal and substitution of section 381 of Act of 1963 — Improper use of “limited” or “teoranta”.

98.—Section 381 of the Act of 1963 is repealed and the following substituted:

“381.—(1) If any person or persons trade or carry on business under a name or title of which ‘limited’ or ‘teoranta’, or any contraction or imitation of either word, is the last word, that person or those persons shall be, unless duly incorporated with limited liability, guilty of an offence.

(2) If any person or persons, having committed an offence under subsection (1), fails within 14 days after the service of a notice on him or them to do so, to cease to so trade or carry on business, in breach of that subsection, the court may, on the application of the registrar of companies or the Director, make an order directing the person or persons to so cease within such time as may be specified in the order and the person or persons shall comply with the order.

(3) An order under subsection (2) may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne by the person or persons against whom it is made.”.