Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Regulations 2024

No. S 955

Limited Partnerships Act 2008

Limited Partnerships
(Amendment) Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 41 of the Limited Partnerships Act 2008, the Minister for Finance makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 9 December 2024.

Amendment of regulation 11

2. In the Limited Partnerships Regulations (Rg 1) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations), in regulation 11, replace paragraph (1) with —

“(1) Whenever a statement relating to a change of registered particulars is required to be filed under section 18(1) of the Act owing to the death of a person, the personal representative of the deceased person or any other person that the Registrar may approve may lodge the statement subject to any conditions that the Registrar may impose.”.

Amendment of regulation 12

3. In the principal Regulations, in regulation 12 —

(a)

in paragraph (2), replace “section 22(1)” with “section 18B(1)”;

(b)

in paragraph (3)(a)(iv), delete “and” at the end; and

(c)

in paragraph (3)(a), after sub‑paragraph (iv), insert —

“(v)	contact address; and”.

New regulations 12A and 12B

4. In the principal Regulations, after regulation 12, insert —

“Excluded documents under section 18B(4) of Act

12A. For the purposes of section 18B(4) of the Act and without affecting regulation 12, the following documents filed or lodged with, or obtained by, the Registrar on or after 9 December 2024, are excluded documents to which section 18B(1) of the Act does not apply:

(a)

a document (other than a form mentioned in regulation 12B) that contains any of the following information about an individual:

(i)	the individual’s date of birth;
(ii)	the individual’s residential address;
(iii)	the individual’s email address;
(iv)	the individual’s mobile telephone number;

(b)

where a statement mentioned in regulation 11(1) is lodged, or a notice mentioned in regulation 11(2) is filed — any other document lodged together with the statement or notice;

(c)

where a general partner of a limited partnership lodges a statement under section 11(1) of the Act to register a relevant limited partnership mentioned in regulation 12 — any other document lodged together with the statement;

(d)

where an application is lodged to apply for the reservation of a name in respect of a proposed limited partnership or limited partnership under section 17(1) of the Act — any other document lodged in respect of the application;

(e)

where a person has applied to the Registrar to give a direction to a general partner of a limited partnership to change the limited partnership’s name under section 17A(6) of the Act — any other document lodged by the person and the general partner in respect of the application.

Prescribed information under section 18B(5)(c) of Act

12B. For the purposes of section 18B(5)(c) of the Act, the reference to a document in section 18B(1) of the Act excludes the following entries in a form submitted on the electronic transaction system:

(a)	a person’s email address;
(b)	an individual’s residential address;
(c)	an individual’s mobile telephone number.”.

Amendment of First Schedule

5. In the principal Regulations, in the First Schedule, delete item 10.

Replacement of Second Schedule

6. In the principal Regulations, replace the Second Schedule with —

“SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 14(2) and (3)

Penalties for late filing or lodgment
of any document

Length of default (calculated in terms
of months after the date on which
document was required to be filed or lodged)

Late lodgment
penalty

1.	Up to 3 months

$50

2.	Exceeding 3 months

$200

”.

Transitional provision

7. Despite regulation 6, the Second Schedule to the principal Regulations as in force immediately before 9 December 2024 continues to apply to the late filing or lodgment of a document under the Act, where that document was required to be filed or lodged before that date.

[G.N. Nos. S 720/2011; S 401/2013; S 283/2015; S 846/2015; S 336/2018]

Made on 6 December 2024.

LAI CHUNG HAN

Permanent Secretary (Development),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[F014.001.0052.V1; AG/LEGIS/SL/163B/2020/2]

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