The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024

Records relating to dissolved LLPs

29.—(1) Regulation 65 (records relating to dissolved LLPs) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 1084 of the 2006 Act(1), as applied to LLPs by that regulation—

(a) in subsection (1) at the end insert “and a reference in this section to “the relevant date” is to the date on which the LLP was dissolved”;

(b) after subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) The registrar need not make any information contained in records relating to the LLP available for public inspection at any time after the end of the period of 20 years beginning with the relevant date.”;

(c) for subsections (2) and (3) substitute—

“(2) The registrar of companies for England and Wales may, at any time after the period of two years beginning with the relevant date, direct that any records relating to the LLP or institution that are held by the registrar are to be removed to the Public Record Office.

(2A) The registrar of companies for Northern Ireland may, at any time after the period of two years beginning with the relevant date, direct that any records relating to the LLP or institution that are held by the registrar are to be removed to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

(3) Records in respect of which a direction is given under subsection (2) or (2A) are to be disposed of under the enactments relating to the Public Record Office or, as the case may be, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.”;

(d) omit subsections (3A) and (4).

(1)

Section 1084 of the 2006 Act was amended the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. Relevant amendments were made by section 82.