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Title: Regulations Governing Review of Applications for Reservation of Limited Partnership Names and Business Scopes Ch
Date: 2015.11.30
Legislative: 1.Promulgated on November 30, 2015
Content: Article 1
These Regulations have been enacted pursuant to the provisions set forth in Paragraph 5, Article 13 
of the Limited Partnership Act (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”).

Article 2
Prior to establishing a limited partnership or applying for an amendment to registration of an 
existing limited partnership that reflects a (new) name and/or business scope, the applicant shall 
submit an application to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the "MOEA") 
to reserve the name of the limited partnership and its business scopes (hereinafter referred to as the 
"Reservation Application").
A Reservation Application may be filed through network transmission.
A Reservation Application may be filed by any of the following applicants:
1. Establishment Registration: The applicant shall be one of the general partners of the proposed 
limited partnership. If the applicant is a juristic person, the name of its statutory representative or of 
the representative to be designated by the applicant to exercise its rights as a shareholder of the 
limited partnership to be established shall be stated in the Reservation Application.
2. Amendment to Limited Partnership Registration: The applicant shall be the registered 
representative of the limited partnership at the time of filing.
3. Foreign Limited Partnership: The applicant shall be the registered responsible person of the 
foreign limited partnership or the manager of the branch to be established in the territory of the 
Republic of China.
A Reservation Application is not required to be filed in the case of narrowing the registered business 
scope as long as the circumstance described in Paragraph 3, Article 8 of these Regulations does not 
exist.
A Reservation Application shall be typed in the format stipulated by the MOEA and shall contain no 
more than five (5) proposed names for the limited partnership.

Article 3
The reservation shall be valid for six (6) months from the date of the approval of the Reservation 
Application; said term can be extended once for one month if an application for extension is filed 
prior to the expiration of the initial term.
If a limited partnership requires more time to prepare for its business operations pursuant to the 
applicable laws or regulations, due to the nature of the business involved, or because other legal 
procedure(s) or registration(s) is (are) required before completing the proposed registration, the 
MOEA shall otherwise notify the applicant of the term of reservation.
If a limited partnership’s registration application is not filed during the term of reservation set forth 
in the preceding two paragraphs, the approval of the Reservation Application shall become null and 
void.

Article 4
The applicant of any approved Reservation Application is not permitted to be replaced during the 
term of reservation, unless a justifiable cause is submitted to and approved by the competent 
authority.

Article 5
The name of a limited partnership shall be in Chinese characters that can be found in the "Chinese 
Dictionary" compiled and published by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China, the 
"Chinese Thesaurus", the "Collective Dictionary of Chinese Characters", the "Kang Xi Chinese 
Dictionary", or other generally accepted Chinese dictionaries.

Article 6
The specific part and form of organization shall be indicated in the name of a limited partnership, 
and the following characters may also be used in the name:
1. Characters that identify the district;
2. Characters that identify the category of business; or
3. Characters that refer to hall, mark, trading, firm, association, enterprise, business, business 
development, business promotion, industrial field, industry, commerce, or business entity, which are 
used to identify the organization or nature of the business.
Where any of the characters referred to in Item 1 of the preceding paragraph is used in the name of a 
limited partnership, such characters shall be placed before the specific part.
Where any of the characters referred to in Item 2 and Item 3 of Paragraph 1 is used in the name of a 
limited partnership, such characters shall be arranged in the same order as the foregoing Items and 
placed after the specific part but before the words Limited Partnership.
The name of a foreign limited partnership shall indicate the limited partnership’s nationality, which 
shall be placed before the district name or the specific part of the name of the limited partnership.

Article 7
Whether the names of two limited partnerships or the names of a company and a limited partnership 
are the same shall be decided based on an overall view of the specific parts of such names. If the 
specific parts of such names are not the same, such names shallbe considered different from each 
other.
Where the names of two limited partnerships or the names of a limited partnership and a company 
contain the same specific parts, but also contain any characters that may distinguish different 
categories of business or any other identifying characters, such names shall be considered different 
from each other.
The distinguishing characters contained in the name of a limited partnership as referred to in the 
preceding paragraph shall not be any of the following:
1. Characters that identify the limited partnership, the form of organization, or the district or that are 
descriptive, such as new, good, old, big/large, small, true,genuine, original, pure, real, authentic, 
orthodox, hall, mark, trading, firm, or association.
2. If the names of two limited partnerships or the names of a limited partnership and a company 
contain the same specific parts and indicate the same category of business, the characters added 
thereafter indicating the organization or nature of the business, such as enterprise, business, business 
development, business promotion, industrial field, industry, commerce, or business entity.

Article 8
Only one category of business is allowed to be reflected in the name of a limited partnership.
The restriction set forth in the preceding paragraph does not apply to a foreign limited partnership 
that has submitted an evidentiary document certified by a competent representative office of the 
Republic of China overseas.
Where the name of a limited partnership contains characters indicating a business that requires 
special permission as set forth in Paragraph 1, Article 11 of the Act, said specially permitted 
business shall be registered and listed in the business scope. If said specially permitted business is 
neither registered nor listed in the business scope, or such special permission is revoked or its 
registration is cancelled, an application to change the name of the limited partnership shall be filed.

Article 9
The specific part of the name of a limited partnership shall not contain:
1. Only one character;
2. A series of four or more of the same character or two or more characters of the same phrase;
3. The name of the Republic of China or any other country, except where the name of a foreign 
limited partnership contains the name of its home country; or
4. The characters set forth in Item 2 and Item 3, Paragraph 1, Article 6 of these Regulations or those 
of the name of a commodity.
Characters that reflect any of the following shall not be used in the name of a limited partnership:
1. Administrative office, service center, welfare center, activity center, farmers’ association, 
fishermen’s association, trade association, industrial union, institution, joint society, welfare society, 
cooperative, symposium, seminar, production or sales class, research institute, firm, social 
association, social club, mutual assistance association, service station, university,college, cultural 
relics gallery, community, temple, fund, association, judicial person of corporation or foundation, or 
any name that may mislead the public into believing that the limited partnership has any connection 
with the government or a public welfare organization;
2. Company, trading company, incorporation, or any other characters that are sufficient to indicate a 
corporate organization;
3. Affiliate, business relations, relationship, group, alliance, franchise, or any other characters 
indicating a joint business operation;
4. Characters that would be mistakenly thought to be relevant to the professional service scope of 
specialized technicians;
5. Characters that would be mistakenly thought to be a business not operated by a profit-seeking 
enterprise; or
6. Any other inappropriate characters.

Article 10
The business scopes of a limited partnership shall be stated using the codes and business types set 
forth in the MOEA’s List of Codes of Business Activities of Companies, Firms, and Limited 
Partnerships, but a statement in code and business type that only indicates that the business "may 
operate any business not prohibited or restricted by laws or regulations, except for those that require 
special permission" is not allowed.

Article 11
A Reservation Application shall be denied if the business to be operated by the limited partnership 
to be established:
1. Would violate public order or good morals;
2. Could be operated only by specific professional(s) or technical personnel;
3. Is not a business operated by any profit-seeking enterprise;
4. Can only be operated by the government in accordance with the law; or
5. Would fulfill any other prohibition prescribed by laws or regulations.

Article 12
An approval or denial decision shall be rendered on a Reservation Application. The proposed names 
of a limited partnership shall be examined and approved in the order in which they are listed in the 
Reservation Application, and only one of the proposed names shall be approved.
An order requiring a correction or modification shall be issued in the event of any typographic error 
or unclear description in the business scope.

Article 13
These Regulations shall take effect as of November 30, 2015.