Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The abbreviations set out in the following table may be used:
(a) instead of words that this Act requires to be part of a company's name or to be included in a document or on a company's common seal; and
(b) instead of words that are part of a company's name; and
(c) with or without full stops.
Acceptable abbreviations | [operative table] | |
| Word | Abbreviation |
1 | Co or Coy | |
2 | Proprietary | Pty |
3 | Ltd | |
4 | No Liability | NL |
5 | Aust | |
6 | Number | No |
7 | and | & |
8 | Australian Company Number | ACN |
9 | Australian Business Number | ABN |
(2) If a company's name includes any of these abbreviations, the word corresponding to the abbreviation may be used instead.