Section 10 Advertisement in Gazette of statement of general partner becoming a limited partner and of assignment of share of limited partner.C1

Notice of any arrangement or transaction under which any person will cease to be a general partner in any firm F1that is not a private fund limited partnership, and will become a limited partner in that firm, or under which the share of a limited partner in a firm that is not a private fund limited partnership will be assigned to any person, shall be forthwith advertised in the Gazette, and until notice of the arrangement or transaction is so advertised the arrangement or transaction shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be of no effect.

Notice of any arrangement or transaction under which any person will cease to be a general partner in a private fund limited partnership shall be forthwith advertised in the Gazette.

Where a person deals with a private fund limited partnership after an arrangement or transaction of the type referred to in subsection (1A), that person is entitled to treat the person who is ceasing to be a general partner as still being a general partner of the firm until the person has notice of the arrangement or transaction.

Advertisement of a notice in accordance with subsection (1A) is notice to a person dealing with the firm for the purpose of subsection (1B).

For the purposes of this section, the expression “ the Gazette ” means—

• In the case of a limited partnership registered in England, the London Gazette;

• In the case of a limited partnership registered in Scotland, the Edinburgh Gazette;

• In the case of a limited partnership registered in F4Northern Ireland, F5the Belfast Gazette.