{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-limited-liability-partnerships-application-of-companies-act-2006-regulations-2009/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-limited-liability-partnerships-application-of-companies-act-2006-regulations-2009/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111479612",
  "legislation_title": "The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-limited-liability-partnerships-application-of-companies-act-2006-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "Sections 86 and 87 apply to LLPs, modified so that they read as follows—\n“An LLP’s registered office\n86. (1) An LLP must at all times have a registered office situated in England and Wales (or in Wales), in Scotland or in Northern Ireland, to which all communications and notices may be addressed.\n(2) On the incorporation of an LLP the situation of its registered office shall be that stated in the incorporation document.\nChange of address of registered office\n87. (1) An LLP may change the address of its registered office by giving notice to the registrar.\n(2) The change takes effect upon the notice being registered by the registrar, but until the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the date on which it is registered a person may validly serve any document on the LLP at the address previously registered.\n(3) For the purposes of any duty of an LLP—\n(a) to keep available for inspection at its registered office any register, index or other document, or\n(b) to mention the address of its registered office in any document,\nan LLP that has given notice to the registrar of a change in the address of its registered office may act on the change as from such date, not more than 14 days after the notice is given, as it may determine.\n(4) Where an LLP unavoidably ceases to perform at its registered office any such duty as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) in circumstances in which it was not practicable to give prior notice to the registrar of a change in the address of its registered office, but—\n(a) resumes performance of that duty at other premises as soon as practicable, and\n(b) gives notice accordingly to the registrar of a change in the situation of its registered office within 14 days of doing so,\nit is not to be treated as having failed to comply with that duty.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479612/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:24.984159+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}