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Limited Partnerships Act 2008
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Voluntary administration
100: Part 15A of Companies Act 1993 applies to 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116AValidation of fees used to recover costs of other Companies Office registers, etc 117Part 2 of Partnership Act 1908 repealed 118Orders revoked 119Companies Act 1993 amended 120Privacy Act 1993 amended 121Other consequential amendments 122Transitional provision for special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 - Voluntary administration

100: Part 15A of Companies Act 1993 applies to limited partnership

You could also call this:

"Limited partnerships must follow some company rules, with a few word changes to make them fit."

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When you are looking at a limited partnership, you need to consider the rules in Part 15A of the Companies Act 1993. You apply these rules to a limited partnership by swapping some words around. You replace the word "company" with "limited partnership".

You also replace other words to make the rules fit a limited partnership. You replace "director" with "general partner", and "shareholder" with "partner". You replace "the board" with "the general partners" to make the rules work for a limited partnership.

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99: Other provisions of Companies Act 1993 apply to deregistration of limited partnership, or

"Rules from the Companies Act 1993 also apply when a limited partnership is deregistered."

101: Restoration to register of limited partnerships, or

"Getting a limited partnership back on the official list"

Part 2General
Voluntary administration

100Part 15A of Companies Act 1993 applies to limited partnership

Part 15A of the Companies Act 1993 applies, with all necessary modifications, to a limited partnership as if references to—
a company were references to a limited partnership:
a director were references to a general partner:
a shareholder were references to a partner:
the board were references to the general partners.