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Limited Partnerships Act 2008
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Terminating events, liquidation, and deregistration
96: When Registrar must deregister limited partnership

Part 1:
Preliminary provisions

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116AValidation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc 117Part 2 of Partnership Act 1908 repealed 118Orders revoked 119Companies Act 1993 amended 120Privacy Act 1993 amended 121Other consequential amendments 122Transitional provision for special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 - Terminating events, liquidation, and deregistration

96: When Registrar must deregister limited partnership

You could also call this:

"When a business is closed and its assets are sold, the Registrar must remove it from the list."

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The Registrar has to deregister a limited partnership when they get told that the liquidation is finished. You need to know that liquidation is when a business is closed and its assets are sold. The Registrar will deregister the limited partnership after they get this notification.

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95: Distribution of surplus assets on liquidation, or

"What happens to leftover assets when a limited partnership ends"

97: Deregistration, or

"When a limited partnership is removed from the official list, it stops existing."

Part 2General
Terminating events, liquidation, and deregistration

96When Registrar must deregister limited partnership

On notification of the completion of the liquidation of a limited partnership, the Registrar must deregister it.