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Enforced by: Companies House
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 12 of 28 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 16 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person20 Director or Officer3

Plus 5 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 162 duties

Companies Act 2006 126 duties

Insolvency Act 1986 77 duties

The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 68 duties

Building Societies Act 1986 32 duties

What it requires

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.008 Duty to register and designate Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must register limited partnerships and designate private fund LPs on applicationStatutory regulator

s.008 Duty to ensure registered office at appropriate address Prosecution

Fail to maintain registered office at an appropriate addressDirector or Officer

Unlimited fine

s.008 Duty to maintain a registered email address Prosecution

Fail to maintain a valid registered email address for a limited partnershipAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.008 Duty to remove disqualified general partners Prosecution

Fail to remove disqualified general partnerAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.008 Duty to maintain registered officer and named contacts Regulated

Maintain registered officer and named contacts for corporate managing officersAny Person

s.008 Duty to notify changes in general partner’s registered officer Regulated

Notify Companies House of changes to registered officer detailsAny Person

s.008 Duty to notify named contact Regulated

Notify Companies House when a legal entity becomes a corporate managing officerAny Person

s.008 Duty to notify changes in named contacts Regulated

Notify Companies House of changes to named contact for corporate managing officersAny Person

s.008 Failure to comply with obligations relating to officers Prosecution

Fail to comply with limited partnership officer obligationsDirector or Officer

Unlimited fine

s.008 Duty to notify registrar of change in partners Prosecution

Notify Companies House of changes to partnersAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.008 Duty to notify registrar of changes of information about partners Regulated

Notify Companies House of changes to partner information within 14 daysAny Person

s.008 Notification of changes occurring before registration Regulated

Notify Companies House of pre-registration changes to proposed partnersAny Person

s.008 Failure to notify information about partners Prosecution

Fail to notify registrar of partner changesAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.009 Registration of changes in partnerships. Regulated

Fail to notify Companies House of changes to limited partnershipAny Person

s.010 Duty to notify registrar of other changes in partnerships Regulated

Notify Companies House of changes within 14 daysAny Person

s.010 Notification of other changes occurring before registration Regulated

Notify registrar if registered details differ from applicationAny Person

s.010 Failure to notify other changes in partnerships Prosecution

Fail to notify changes to a limited partnershipDirector or Officer

Unlimited fine

s.010 Duty to deliver confirmation statements Prosecution

Deliver confirmation statement to Companies House after each review periodAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.010 Power for HMRC to obtain accounts Regulated

Fail to provide accounts to HMRC on requestAny Person

s.014 Register and index to be kept. Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must keep a register and index of limited partnershipsStatutory regulator

s.016 Material not available for public inspection Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must not make protected information publicStatutory regulator

s.016 Restriction on disclosure of information by registrar Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Companies House must not disclose protected date of birth or home addressStatutory regulator

s.016 Restriction on use or disclosure of information by partners Prosecution

Misuse of partner's protected personal informationAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.018 Duty to notify registrar of dissolution Regulated

Fail to notify registrar of limited partnership dissolutionAny Person

s.021 Registrar’s decision on application for administrative revival Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar must notify applicant of revival decision and publishCrown / Minister / Government department

s.031 Winding up of limited partnerships: concurrent proceedings Prosecution

Fail to notify court of sequestration or debt proceedings during winding upAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.034 False statements: basic offence Prosecution

Make false or misleading statements to Companies HouseAny Person

Unlimited fine

s.035 False statements: aggravated offence Prosecution

Make false statements or deliver misleading documents to the registrarAny Person

Unlimited fine

47 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Short title.

s.002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

s.003 Interpretation of terms.

s.004 Definition and constitution of limited partnership.

s.005 Registration of limited partnership required.

s.006 Modifications of general law in case of limited partnerships.

s.006 Private fund limited partnerships: actions by limited partners

s.007 Law as to private partnerships to apply where not excluded by this Act.

s.007 Application of company law

s.008 Application for registration

s.008 Name of limited partnership

s.008 Certificate of registration and certificate of designation as a private fund limited partnership

s.008 Application for designation as a private fund limited partnership

s.008 Change of address of registered office by general partners

s.008 Regulations about change of address of registered office by registrar

s.008 Change of registered email address

s.008 Change of registered officers and named contacts by general partner

s.008 Regulations about change of registered officer’s address by registrar

s.008 Prohibition on acting unless general partner notified

s.008 Regulations about change of general partner’s address by registrar

s.010 Advertisement in Gazette of statement of general partner becoming a limited partner and of assignment of share of limited partner.

s.010 Power to amend matters to be confirmed in confirmation statement

s.010 Failure to deliver confirmation statement

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s.013 Registrar to file statement and issue certificate of registration.

s.015 The registrar

s.016 Inspection and copies of the register of limited partnerships

s.016 Records relating to dissolved or deregistered limited partnerships

s.016 Disclosure of protected residential address information under court order

s.017 Power to Board of Trade to make rules.

s.019 Registrar’s power to confirm dissolution of limited partnership

s.020 Administrative revival

s.022 Effect of administrative revival

s.023 Application to court for revival

s.024 Decision on application for revival by the court

s.025 Effect of court order for revival

s.026 Voluntary deregistration of limited partnership

s.027 Removal of limited partnership from index of names

s.028 Winding up limited partnerships on grounds of public interest

s.029 Winding up dissolved limited partnerships

s.030 Power to make provision about winding up

s.032 Power to amend circumstances for notification under section 31

s.033 Documents to be delivered by authorised corporate service providers

s.036 National security exemption from identity verification

s.037 Service of documents on limited partnership

s.038 Regulations

Help complying

Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.

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1 more guide that reference this instrument

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

Limited Partnerships Act 1907

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Help complying

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