New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY (DEMUTUALISATION AND RECONSTRUCTION) ACT 1997 - SECT 12

12 Name of AMP

(1) AMP must, with the approval of the Attorney General, not later than one month after the conversion takes effect, change its name so that it has the word “Limited” or the abbreviation “Ltd.” or “Ltd” as part of and at the end of its name.

(2) AMP may, with the approval of the Attorney General, afterwards change its name from time to time. That approval is not needed after AMP is registered as a company under Division 3 of Part 2.2 of the Corporations Law .

(3) A change of name by AMP under this section does not:

(a) create a new legal entity, or

(b) prejudice or affect the identity of the body corporate constituted by AMP or its continuity as a body corporate, or

(c) affect the property, or the rights or obligations, of AMP, or

(d) render defective any legal proceedings by or against AMP,

and any legal proceedings that could have been continued or begun by or against AMP by its former name may be continued or begun by or against it by its new name.