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Changes to LLP Regulations

These changes come in to force from 1 October 2009, some further provisions of the CA 2006 will apply to LLP Regulations.

These include:

1. The requirement to maintain a register of members, which means that from 1 October, all LLP must keep available for inspection a register of members containing certain particulars, including a service address for each individual member and whether a member is a designated member. Like companies, LLPs must but disclose a member’s residential address (except to Companies House) without a court order.
2. From 1 October, LLP members (like company directors) can submit forms providing service addresses (as opposed to residential addresses).
3. Companies House will be unable to accept online filings from LLP members, but the new hard copy forms will be made available (in final form) on the Co House website at least a week in advance of 1 October.
4. From 1 October there will be changes to the arrangement for inspecting company and LLP registers. These registers may be held at the registered office address, or at a Single Alternative Inspection Location (SAIL). You must notify Co House if you set up a SAIL address or if the SAIL address is moved.
5. You may only have one SAIL address for a company or LLP at a time.
6. Forms for the SAIL address can be obtained from Co House website again.