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Partnership Act 1997
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56 Application for registration
(1) An application for the registration must be made to the
Commissioner in the approved form.
(2) The applicant must give the Commissioner any additional
information required by the Commissioner.
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the approved form must require the
following to be included in the application:
(a) for an application by a partnership referred to in
section 55(1)(a):
(i) the signature of each partner in the partnership or a
person authorised to make the application on behalf of
the partnership and its partners; and
(ii) the partnership's firm name; and
(iii) the full address of the proposed principal office in the
Territory of the partnership;
(b) for an application by the proposed partners in a proposed
partnership referred to in section 55(1)(b):
(i) the signature of each proposed partner; and
(ii) the proposed firm name of the proposed partnership;
and
(iii) the full address of the proposed principal office in the
Territory of the proposed partnership;
(c) the following particulars about the name of each partner or
proposed partner (as the case may be):
(i) the full name of the partner or proposed partner;
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(ii) if the partner or proposed partner is a partnership – its
firm name or the full name of each of its partners;
(d) the following particulars about the address of each partner or
proposed partner (as the case may be):
(i) for a natural person – the person's home address;
(ii) for a corporation – the corporation's registered office or
principal place of business;
(iii) for a partnership – the partnership's registered office or
principal place of business;
(e) a statement as to whether each partner or proposed partner
(as the case may be) is, or is proposed to be, a general
partner or limited partner;
(f) a statement as to whether each partner or proposed partner
(as the case may be) is a partnership;
(g) for an application in the circumstance covered by
section 55(2)(a) – a copy of a document evidencing the status
of the partnership as a VCLP, AFOF or VCMP;
(h) for an application in the circumstance covered by
section 55(2)(b), (c), (d) or (e) – a statement of the intention
referred to in that section;
(i) for an application in the circumstance covered by
section 55(2)(f) – a statement setting out the circumstance.