{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limited-partnerships-act-1907/section-8R",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limited-partnerships-act-1907/section-8R.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/24",
  "legislation_title": "Limited Partnerships Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limited-partnerships-act-1907",
  "path": "section/8R",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8R",
  "heading": "Duty to notify registrar of change in partners",
  "text": "(1) The general partners in a limited partnership must give notice to the registrar if a person—\n(a) becomes a general partner or limited partner in the limited partnership, or\n(b) ceases to be a general partner or limited partner in the limited partnership.\n(2) A notice under subsection (1)(a) must contain the required information about the general partner or limited partner (see Part 2 of the Schedule).\n(3) A notice under subsection (1)(a) of a person becoming a general partner must contain a statement that the new general partner is not disqualified under the directors disqualification legislation (see section 8J(3)).\n(4) A notice under subsection (1)(a) of a legal entity becoming a general partner must be accompanied by a statement by the general partner specifying the name of its proposed registered officer, who must be an individual who meets the requirements in section 8K(1)(a) to (c).\n(5) A notice under subsection (1)(a) of a legal entity becoming a general partner must be accompanied by one of the following statements by the general partner—\n(a) a statement that the general partner does not have any corporate managing officers, or\n(b) if the general partner has one or more corporate managing officers, a statement specifying, for each corporate managing officer, the name of the proposed named contact for the corporate managing officer.\n(6) The proposed named contact for a corporate managing officer must be an individual who is a managing officer of the corporate managing officer.\n(7) A statement under subsection (4) must—\n(a) contain the required information about the proposed registered officer (see Part 3 of the Schedule), and\n(b) be accompanied by a statement by the individual who is the proposed registered officer confirming that the individual meets the requirements in section 8K(1)(a) to (1)(c).\n(8) A statement under subsection (5)(b) must—\n(a) contain the required information about each proposed named contact specified in the statement (see Part 4 of the Schedule), and\n(b) be accompanied by a statement by each proposed named contact confirming that the proposed named contact is a managing officer of the corporate managing officer concerned.\n(9) Subsection (1)(a) does not require the general partners, on registration of the limited partnership, to give notice in relation to a person named as a proposed general partner or a proposed limited partner in the application for registration under section 8A.\n(10) A notice under subsection (1) must specify the date on which the person became or ceased to be a general partner or limited partner in the limited partnership.\n(11) A notice under subsection (1) must be given within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the person becomes or ceases to be a general partner or a limited partner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 8R-8W 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. 122, 219(1)(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/24/section/8R",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:17.808747+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."
}