Part 2 – Limited partnerships etc Meaning of ‘limited partnership’ Section 109: Meaning of ‘limited partnership’
This section omits section 5 of Limited Partnerships Act 1907 which states that ‘every limited partnership must be registered as such in accordance with the provisions of this Act’ and inserts a definition of limited partnership into the Act (which is consistent with the definition in section 1099 of the Companies Act 2006). It also clarifies that deregistration under new section 26 is the only way a limited partnership can cease to be a limited partnership without also ceasing to be a partnership at all.
	This section also amends section 1099 of the Companies Act 2006 to make clear that the Registrar is obliged to maintain only those limited partnerships that are registered as such under the 1907 Act within the Registrar’s index of names, thereby ensuring that the Registrar is not under any obligation to maintain names of defunct limited partnerships within that index.