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239AEB: Company must disclose fact of administration
or “Company in financial trouble must add special words after its name”
You could also call this:

“Displaying old company name alongside new name during administration or liquidation”

If you change your company’s name less than 6 months before an administrator is appointed, you need to include your old name on any document that shows your new name. This rule applies while your company is in administration.

If your company ends up in liquidation during the administration, the liquidator must also include your old name on any document that shows your new name.

This rule helps people identify your company if they knew it by its old name.

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or “Breaking voluntary administration rules doesn't usually invalidate actions, but courts can decide otherwise”
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Part 15A Voluntary administration
Notices about steps taken under this Part

239AECNotice of change of name

  1. A company in administration that changed its name less than 6 months before the appointment of the administrator must, in any document of the company where its name appears, include also its former name.

  2. If a company to which subsection (1) applies is, in the course of the administration, placed in liquidation, the liquidator must, in any document of the company where its name appears, include also its former name.

Notes
  • Section 239AEC: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Companies Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 56).