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Limited Partnerships Act 2008

Overseas limited partnerships

109: Use of name by overseas limited partnership

You could also call this:

"Overseas limited partnerships must clearly state their name and home country in New Zealand business documents."

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If you are an overseas limited partnership that does business in New Zealand, you must make sure your name and the country where you were formed are clearly stated. You need to do this in written communications, like letters or emails, that you send or that someone sends on your behalf. You also need to do this in documents that you issue or sign, or that someone issues or signs on your behalf, that create a legal obligation for you.

When stating your name, you can use a shortened version of a word if it is commonly recognised and not misleading.

You can find more information about this by looking at s 338.

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Part 3Overseas limited partnerships

109Use of name by overseas limited partnership

  1. Every overseas limited partnership that carries on business in New Zealand must ensure that its name, and the name of the country where it was formed or incorporated, are clearly stated in—

  2. written communications sent by, or on behalf of, the overseas limited partnership; and
    1. documents issued or signed by, or on behalf of, the overseas limited partnership that evidence or create a legal obligation of the overseas limited partnership.

      1. For the purposes of subsection (1), a generally recognised abbreviation of a word or words may be used in the name of an overseas limited partnership if it is not misleading to do so.

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      Notes
      • Section 109(1): amended, on , by section 14 of the Limited Partnerships Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 47).