On 11 Jun 2012, at 12:28, Katie Chan wrote: > On 11/06/2012 10:51, Gordon Joly wrote: >> On 11/06/12 10:20, James Farrar wrote: >>> >>> For those who weren't there, I think the answer to that was that as a >>> charity we're exempt from the normal limited company requirement for >>> the name to end with "Limited" - and since we would continue to use >>> simply "Wikimedia UK" as the working name it was better to have the >>> working name and the legal name identical. >>> >> >> Thanks. Mike Peel did give an answer. But he did not say that, to my >> recollection. >> >> It was my understanding that any company (or Industrial and Provident >> Society) can choose to omit "Ltd" or "Limited" from their name. Either >> way, I did wonder about the choice. > > Only charities, those that has grandfathered in exemption, or any that has > explicit exemption in other regulations. See Companies Act 2006 s.60.[1] > > KTC > > [1] <http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/60>
Sorry - if I gave a different answer, then James and KTC's answer is the one I should have given! The main point of this change was that it means that our working and legal name are exactly the same, hence saving much typespace, ink and confusion. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
