Partnership News, Articles, Notifications and Forms

This paper attempts to study the impact of non registration of firms i.e., partnership firms. The whole idea of the paper is that all others who are transacting with the firm must be aware of the constitution of the firm and thus the documents which are available with the registrar of companies are public documents and people dealing with the firm are said to have constructive notice of the details about the firm. Full Article

Conversion of Firm under Part IX of the Companies Act, 1956 :- The firm may be converted into a company by following the provisions of Part IX of the Companies Act, 1956. Sections 565 to 581 deal with conversion of firms into a company under the Companies Act, 1956. Full Article

Provided that if a limited liability partnership has closed the financial year on the 31st March, 2011, it shall file the Statement of Account and Solvency in Form 8 with the Registrar, within a period of sixty days from the end of six months of the financial year to which the Statement of Account and Solvency relates. Full Article

All LLPs registered upto 30-September-2010 have to mandatorily close the financial year as on 31-03-2011 and file Form-11 by 30-May-2011 and Form-8 by 30- October-2011. LLPs registered from 01-10-2010 to 31-03-2011 have option either to close financial year as on 31-03-2011 or 31-03-2012 and to file Form-8 & 11 accordingly. Full Article

I am directed to say that a number of representations have been received in the Ministry to the effect that the Registrar of Companies and the Registrar of LLPs are incorporating the companies and LLPs in contravention to the provisions of the Architect Act, 1972 that the Council of Architect (CoA). In terms of Sections 36 and 37 of the Architects Act, 1972 as well as Rules and Regulations framed thereunder only an architect registered with the Council of Architecture or.. Full Article

Process to Start Limited Liability Partnership Step 1:- Acquire the DPIN of desired Partners Step 2:- Acquire the Digital Signature of one of the desired Partner Step 3:- Registered DPIN and DSC with LLP website Step 4:- Check the availability of name from which partners want to make LLP Full Article

1) Annual filing of Form 8 is now taken in straight through process. Users are requested to download the new eForm for their filing. 2) Forms 17 & 2 and Forms 18 & 2 will be linked and processed together in the back-office to speed up the conversion process. 3) Viewing of public documents filed by LLPs are enabled. Full Article

NOTIFICATION [F.NO. 2/17/2011-CLV], DATED 14-9-2011 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 79 of the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (6 of 2009), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, further to amend the Limited Liability Partnership Rules, 2009 namely:- Full Article