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saulr | 2 years ago

This ultimately resulted in a new restriction in a bill making its way through Parliament that "a company must not be registered under this Act by a name that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, consists of or includes computer code".

See page 16 of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/49554/documents/283...)

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lastangryman|2 years ago

Amazing. I would absolutely love to sit down with the Secretary of State and test their knowledge of what does of does not consist of of computer.

omnicognate|2 years ago

Assuming this means the Secretary of State for Business and Trade (the UK has 17 Secretaries of State), the current one has a degree in computer systems engineering and has worked as a software engineer [1], so she probably has a fairly good idea.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch

miquels|2 years ago

Wait till they learn about Whitespace .. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua... )

zapdrive|2 years ago

So "SELECT TRAVELS LTD." is prohibited? How about "Class Moving Ltd.", or "Sarah's wedding functions", or "Goto Grocery"?

jwestbury|2 years ago

> in the opinion of the Secretary of State

The Secretary of State gets to decide whether it's "computer code." It's not an objective decision. This is how things are supposed to work.

schoen|2 years ago

That's kind of awesome!

Although it would be sad if this meant that, for example, one couldn't name a company after a programming language keyword (!?).

beardyw|2 years ago

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

... I could go on.