Limited Partnerships Act 1907

[F1 16E Disclosure of protected residential address information under court order U.K.

(1) The court may make an order for the disclosure of protected residential address information by the appropriate limited partnership or by the registrar if—

(a) there is evidence that service of documents at a service address other than the individual’s usual residential address is not effective to bring them to the notice of the individual, or

(b) it is necessary or expedient for the information to be provided in connection with the enforcement of an order or decree of the court,

and the court is otherwise satisfied that it is appropriate to make the order.

(2) An order for disclosure by the registrar may be made only if—

(a) the appropriate limited partnership does not have the protected residential address information, or

(b) the appropriate limited partnership was dissolved.

(3) The order may be made on the application of a liquidator, creditor or partner of the appropriate limited partnership, or any other person appearing to the court to have a sufficient interest.

(4) The order must specify the persons to whom, and purposes for which, disclosure is authorised.

(5) In this section—

• “appropriate limited partnership” —

  (a)

  in relation to protected residential address information about a partner in a limited partnership means that limited partnership;

  (b)

  in relation to protected residential address information about a registered officer of a general partner in a limited partnership means that limited partnership;

  (c)

  in relation to protected residential address information about a named contact for the managing officer of a general partner in a limited partnership means that limited partnership;

• “named contact” has the meaning given by section 8K(5);

• “protected residential address information” has the meaning given by section 16A(3);

• “registered officer” has the meaning given by section 8K(4).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 16C-16E and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 but only so far as it confers a power to make regulations or relates to the exercise of the power, otherwise prosp.) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 139(2), 219(1)(2)(b)