Section 54 - Partnership Act 1892 - Application for registration

54Application for registration

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54 Application for registration

(1) An application for registration of a limited partnership or incorporated limited partnership is made by lodging with the Registrar in accordance with this Part a statement signed—

(a) if the application is made by a partnership (including an external partnership)—either by each partner in the partnership or by a person given authority to make such an application on behalf of the partnership and the partners in it, or

(b) in any other case—by each proposed partner.

(2) The statement must be made in the form approved by the Registrar and must—

(a) contain a statement of whether the partnership is to be registered as a limited partnership or an incorporated limited partnership, and

(b) in the case of an application by a partnership (including an external partnership), contain particulars of—

(i) the firm-name of the partnership, and

(ii) the full address of the office or principal office in New South Wales of the partnership (to be called the registered office of the proposed partnership), and

(c) in the case of an application by persons or partnerships (including external partnerships) proposing to be the partners in the proposed partnership, contain particulars of—

(i) the proposed firm-name of the proposed partnership, and

(ii) the full address of the proposed office or principal office in New South Wales of the proposed partnership (to be called the registered office of the partnership), and

(d) contain particulars of the full name of each partner or proposed partner or, if the partner or proposed partner is a partnership (including an external partnership), the name of that partnership or, if that partnership does not have a name, the full name of each partner in the partnership, and

(e) in the case of an application by a partnership, contain particulars of its registered office or principal office, and in any other case, contain particulars of the full address of each partner or proposed partner, being (in the case of an individual) his or her principal place of residence or (in the case of a corporation or partnership) its registered office or principal place of business, and