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Article 2
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Prior to incorporating a company or applying for an amendment to the corporate registration of an existing company that reflects a (new) corporate 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 a corporate name and business scope (hereinafter referred to as the "Reservation Application").<br/>A Reservation Application may be filed through network transmission.<br/>A Reservation Application may be filed by any of the following applicants:<br/>1. Incorporation Registration: The applicant shall be one of the promoters of the proposed company limited by shares, a shareholder of the proposed limited company, an unlimited-liability shareholder of the proposed unlimited company with limited liability shareholders, or an unlimited-liability shareholder of the proposed unlimited company. 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 company to be incorporated shall be stated in the Reservation Application.<br/>2. Corporate Change Registration: The applicant shall be the registered representative of the company at the time of filing.<br/>3. Foreign Company: The applicant shall be the responsible person designated by the foreign company or the manager of the branch to be incorporated in the territory of the Republic of China.<br/>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 2, Article 8 of these Regulations or in the case of changing the form of its organization in accordance with the Act.<br/>A Reservation Application shall be typed in the format prescribed by the MOEA and shall contain no more than five proposed corporate names.
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