Commentary on provisions of Act Registered providers: insolvency, restructuring etc Section 13: Limited liability partnerships
Section 13 introduces Schedule 1 which makes a number of amendments to extend the housing moratorium and housing administration regimes to private registered providers that are LLPs and makes related provision.
	Schedule 1: Limited liability partnerships
	Schedule 1 makes a number of amendments to extend the housing moratorium and housing administration regimes to private registered providers that are LLPs and makes related provision.
	These regimes seek to balance protection of creditors and of tenants in the event of a private registered provider getting into financial difficulty and becoming insolvent.
	Part 1: Amendments of the Housing and Planning Act 2016
	Part 1 of Schedule 1 makes amendments to the HPA 2016 to extend the housing administration regime to LLPs. This regime currently applies only in relation to companies, registered societies and charitable incorporated organisations.
	Paragraph 3 defines "relevant officer" for LLPs as a member of the partnership.
	Paragraph 4 extends regulation making powers in relation to the conduct of administration etc so that they also apply in relation to LLPs.
	Paragraphs 5 to 8 amend sections 104 to 108 to provide that a winding up order or ordinary administration order cannot be made, an administrator cannot be appointed by creditors etc, and security cannot be enforced in relation to a private registered provider that is an LLP unless the regulator is given notice and 28 days have elapsed (or the regulator waives the notice requirement). Its effect is to add LLPs to the provisions that prevent the objectives of housing administration being frustrated by such steps being taken before the Secretary of State and the regulator have been given an opportunity to apply for a housing administration order, or by such orders or appointments being made when an application for a housing administration order has been made and is outstanding.
	Paragraph 9 adds LLPs to the interpretation section for Chapter 5 of Part 2 of the HPA 2016.