Canada Cooperatives Regulations

13 (1) Despite section 10, a cooperative name that is confusing with the name of a body corporate is not prohibited for that reason alone if

• (a) the cooperative name is the name of an existing or a proposed cooperative that is the successor to the business of the body corporate and the body corporate has ceased or will, in the immediate future, cease to carry on business under that cooperative name and undertakes in writing to dissolve or to change its name before the successor cooperative begins carrying on business under that name; and

• (b) the cooperative name of the existing or proposed cooperative sets out in numerals the year of incorporation, or the year of the most recent amendment to the cooperative name, in parentheses.

(2) If a cooperative name is changed so that the reference to the year of incorporation or the year of the most recent amendment to the cooperative name is deleted at least two years after it is introduced, it is not prohibited for that reason alone.