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15. After regulation 13C (Registrar’s powers to change name), inserted by regulation 14 of these Regulations, insert—
13C. Section 76E applies to LLPs, modified so that it reads as follows—
(1) Nothing in Part 5 that is applied to LLPs by the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804) prevents the registration of an LLP under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 by a name if the Secretary of State is satisfied that the registration of the LLP by that name is necessary—
(a)in the interests of national security, or
(b)for the purposes of preventing or detecting serious crime.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—
(a)“crime” means conduct which—
(i)constitutes a criminal offence, or
(ii)is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took place in any one part of the United Kingdom, would constitute a criminal offence, and
(b)crime is “serious” if—
(i)the offence which is or would be constituted by the conduct is an offence for which the maximum sentence (in any part of the United Kingdom) is imprisonment for 3 years or more, or
(ii)the conduct involves the use of violence, results in substantial financial gain or is conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose.””.
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