Limited Partnerships Act 2008

General - Administration

70: Address for service

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"Where to send important papers to a limited partnership in New Zealand"

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When you are part of a limited partnership, you must have an address in New Zealand where people can send you important documents. This address is called your address for service and it can be your registered office or another place, but it cannot be a postal centre or document exchange. You need to make sure this address is listed in the register.

Your address for service is the one that is listed in the register at any given time. The description of your address for service must include certain details, such as whether it is at your registered office or another place. If it is at another place, you must state the address of that place.

If your address for service is at the offices of accountants or lawyers, you must state that and give details about where their offices are located in the building. If your address for service is in a building with other people, but not at the offices of a firm or person, you must give details about where it is located in the building. You can find more information about how this rule was amended by the Financial Reporting Amendment Act 2014 on 1 July 2015.

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Part 2General
Administration

70Address for service

A limited partnership must have an address for service in New Zealand.
The address for service may be the limited partnership’s registered office or another place, but it must not be at a postal centre or document exchange.
A limited partnership’s address for service at any particular time is the address that is described as its address for service in the register at that time.
The description of the address for service must state that it is at the registered office of the limited partnership or, if it is at another place, must—
state the address of that place; and
if the address for service is at the offices of any firm of accountants or lawyers, or the offices of any other person, state—
1. that the address for service of the limited partnership is at the offices of that firm or person; and
2. particulars of the location in any building of those offices; or
if the address for service is not at the offices of a firm or person referred to in paragraph (b) but is located in a building occupied by persons other than the limited partnership, state particulars of its location in the building.

Notes

Section 70(4)(b): amended, on 1 July 2015, by section 17 of the Financial Reporting Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 64).