Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000
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| Long title | An Act to make provision for limited liability partnerships. |
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| Citation | 2000 c. 12 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales; Scotland; ss. 10-13 Northern Ireland |
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| Royal assent | 20 July 2000 |
| Commencement | 6 April 2001 |
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| Amended by |
2004 c. 27 S.I. 2001/1228 |
| Relates to | 2002 c. 12 (N.I.) |
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Status: Current legislation
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| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Text of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk | |
The Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (c.12) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced the concept of the limited liability partnership into English and Scots law. It created an LLP as a body with legal personality separate from its members (unlike a normal partnership) which is governed under a hybrid system of law partially from company law and partially from partnership law. Unlike normal partnerships the liability of members of LLP on winding up is limited to the amount of capital they contributed to the LLP.
Section 2 of the act provides that an LLP may be incorporated when two or more persons associated for the purpose of carrying on legal business subscribe their names to an incorporation document; that incorporation document, or an approved copy of it, has been delivered to the Companies Registrar at Companies House; and a statement either by a solicitor or one of the subscribers that the formalities have been complied with has also been delivered to the registrar. The incorporation document must take either the prescribed form or a form as close to the prescribed form as possible. It must contain the address of the registered office of the LLP, state the name of the LLP, state the name of the members of the LLP on incorporation, state which of those members are to be "designated members" or that all members will be "designated members" and also say whether the LLP's registered office is to be situated in England and Wales, Wales or Scotland.
Section 3 provides that once the formalities have been complied with the registrar retains the incorporation document or a copy of it and issues a certificate of incorporation. That certificate is regarded as conclusive evidence that the incorporation formalities have been complied with.
Membership of the LLP is initially those who subscribed to the incorporation document. A person may become a new member of an LLP with the agreement of existing members and cease to be a member with their agreement as well. As with a normal partnership a partner of an LLP is not regarded as being employed by the LLP—they are self-employed. The relationship between members is governed by agreement between the members. If such an agreement does not exist the act provides that regulations may be made specifying the default form of such an agreement. As with normal partnerships the members of an LLP are agents of the LLP, and the LLP is liable for the actions of a member when that member acts in a wrongful way or makes an omission. However unlike a normal partnership the members of an LLP are not jointly and severally liable for the actions of another member. This is because the LLP itself has legal personality separate from its members. If the membership of an LLP changes then the registrar must be informed within 14 days and if a member changes address the registrar must be informed within 28 days.
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