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Limited Partnerships Act 2008
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71: Change of address for service

Part 1:
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3Purpose of Act 4Interpretation 5Act binds the Crown

Part 2:
General

Part 3:
Overseas limited partnerships

104Overseas limited partnership must register 105Meaning of carrying on business 106Validity of transactions not affected 107Application for registration 108Registration of overseas limited partnership 109Use of name by overseas limited partnership 110Notification of changes relating to overseas limited partnership 111Rectification or correction of name or address of person authorised to accept service 112Annual return of overseas limited partnership 113Overseas limited partnership ceasing to carry on business in New Zealand 114Liquidation of overseas limited partnership

Part 4:
Miscellaneous

115Confidentiality of limited partner information 116Regulations 116AValidation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc 117Part 2 of Partnership Act 1908 repealed 118Orders revoked 119Companies Act 1993 amended 120Privacy Act 1993 amended 121Other consequential amendments 122Transitional provision for special partnerships

Schedule 1:
Activities that do not constitute taking part in management of limited partnership

Schedule 2:
Information to be contained in annual return

Limited Partnerships Act 2008

General - Administration

71: Change of address for service

You could also call this:

"Update the address where you get important partnership documents"

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If you are a general partner of a limited partnership, you can change the address where you get official documents at any time, as long as it is allowed by your partnership agreement. You need to tell the Registrar about the change using a special form. The change happens on the date you state in the notice, but it cannot be earlier than 5 working days after the Registrar gets the notice.

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70: Address for service, or

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

72: Rectification or correction of address for service, or

"Fixing a limited partnership's address in the official records"

Part 2General
Administration

71Change of address for service

Subject to the partnership agreement and to subsection (3), the general partners of a limited partnership may change the address for service of the limited partnership at any time.
Notice in the prescribed form of the change must be given to the Registrar for registration.
A change of address for service takes effect on a date stated in the notice, not being a date that is earlier than 5 working days after the notice is registered.