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V.M.V.S.RAO & CO.,
Chartered Accountants
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Amendments in LLP RulesMCA has notified Limited Liability Partnership (Amendment) Rules, 2012 vide, G.S.R (E) dated
June 5, 2012 thereby making further amendments in the existing Limited Liability Rules,2009 .The aforesaid notification is effective from June 11th, 2012.Vide this notification slight amendment has been made in process of Incorporation, NameGuidelines for LLP. Further due to integration of MCA21 with LLP system, all the LLP e-formshave been replaced by new e-forms and certain changes have been notified in the eFormsalso.Following are the respective changes made vide notification No. G.S.R (E), 05/06/20111 Partners Consent of Partners/ Designated
The following proviso has been inserted after rule 8 of the existing Limited Liability Rules,2009
"Provided that in case of incorporation, the individual who has given his consent to act asPartner or designated Partner shall file consent in Form 2 along with fee as mentionedin Annexure A"In case of incorporation of LLP, the Partners are now required to file consent to act asPartner/Designated Partner in Form 2 along with the incorporation application. Earlier,the consent of the Partners was filed through Form 4.
Form 4 shall be filled only for any change in the constitution of Partners (any addition,
removal or change in the designation of the Partner) once the LLP is incorporated.
2 Proposed Name of the LLP2.1 Any difference in the name to the extent of place only can be reserved
subject to No Objection Certificate.The following proviso has been inserted in clause (ix) sub-rule 2 of rule 18 ofthe existing Limited Liability Rules, 2009
"Provided the name shall be reserved, in case "No Objection Certificate" is
granted by the registered Limited Liability Partnership or the Company as thecase may be".
Earlier clause ix rule 18 of the Limited Liability Partnership Rules 2009
"A name shall not be generally reserved it is different from the name or namesof the existing limited liability partnership only to the extent of having the nameof a place within brackets before the word 'limited liability partnership', forexample, Indian Press (Delhi) LLP should not be allowed in view of the existence
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of the LLP named Indian Press LLP".Alike Companies, now any difference in the proposed name or names from theexisting LLP or Company name only to the extent of having the name of place inbrackets of the existing limited liability partnership or Company shall be
reserved in case of obtaining No Objection Certificate from the existingCompany or LLP as the case may be.
For example: The name Indian Press (Delhi) LLP can be reserved even if IndianPress LLP already exists provided that No Objection Certificate has been takenfrom Indian Press LLP.
2.2 Inclusion of words like Bank, Insurance, Banking etc in the LLP Namewill require approval from regulatory authority.Earlier Clause 18(2)(xiii) has been substituted with the new clause stating:
"The name shall not be reserved it includes words like 'Bank', 'Insurance' and'Banking', 'Venture Capital' 'mutual fund' or business activity includes the wordlike 'Bank', 'Insurance' and 'Banking', 'Venture Capital' 'mutual fund' or suchsimilar names without the approval of regulatory authority.
Provided that the approval of regulatory authority shall be obtained at the timeof application for incorporation or change of name of an existing LimitedLiability Partnership, as the case may be".Now approval of regulatory authority is required in case of inclusion of wordslike 'Bank', 'Insurance' and 'Banking' 'Venture Capital', 'mutual fund' in theBusiness Activity also. Earlier the approval was required only in case of inclusionof theses specific words in the name only. Moreover the approval of regulatory
authority shall be obtained at the time of filing of Incorporation application, andshall be annexed along with e-Form 2
Such approval of regulatory authority shall also be required in case of change ofname and the approval shall be obtained at time of filling of name application,
and shall be annexed along with e-Form 1.
2.3 For inclusion of words like company secretary, chartered accountant,advocates or other similar words in the name of the LLP, approval ofthe respective council is to be attached along with Form 2,incorporation application.The following proviso has been inserted in clause (xvi) sub-rule 2 of rule 18 ofthe existing Limited Liability Rules, 2009.
"Provided that's the approval of the council governing the profession shall beobtained at the time of application for incorporation or change of name of anexisting Limited Liability Partnership, as the case may be"
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Earlier clause 18(2)(xvi) of the Limited Liability Partnership Rules 2009 ,
"The proposed name of limited liability partnership includes the words companysecretary, chartered accountant, advocates or such similar words as indicativeof a profession, as part of the proposed name, the same shall be allowed onlyafter obtaining approval from the Council governing such profession or such
authority as may be nominated by the Central Government, in this behalf"
It has been specified through the notification that in case of incorporation of LLPwhere the proposed LLP includes the words company secretary, charteredaccountant, advocates or such similar words as indicative of a profession,approval of the council governing the profession shall be obtained at the time offiling of Incorporation application, and shall be annexed along with e-Form 2.
Such approval of the council of the governing profession shall also be requiredin case of change of name, where by such change the words companysecretary, chartered accountant, advocates or such similar words as indicativeof a profession have been included in the name of existing LLP. The approvalshall be obtained at time of filling of name application, and shall be annexed
along with e-Form 1.
3 Revision of feesFiling Fee for certain forms have been modified and prescribed stating.
"For Filing, Registering or recording notice of appointment, cessation, change inname, address, designation of a partner or designated partner, intimation ofDesignated Partner Identification Number and consent to become a designatedpartner or designated Partner in form 4 Rs.- 50"
"An application for striking off name of defunct Limited Liability Partnershipunder Rule 37"
Fees for filing of Form 4 for any change in the Partner or Designated Partner
have been prescribed as Rs. 50, irrespective of Capital Contribution.
Fess for filling of application of for striking off name of defunct Limited LiabilityPartnership has been prescribed as Rs. 500, irrespective of Capital Contribution.
4 Notification of New Forms:
Since the LLP system has been integrated with MCA system, all the existing e-forms has
been substituted with new e-forms with certain changes.
Major changes in the new forms are4.1 Form 1- Name Reservation
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Application for reservation of name of LLP is now to be filed withapplicant's DPIN/ DIN, while earlier; it can be applied with PAN orPassport Number also.
4.2 Form 2 - Incorporation Application In order to ease the incorporation process, the partners/ Designated
Partners are now required to file the Consent to act as DesignatedPartner/ Partner in Form 2 (Addendum) instead of filing Form 4separately.
In case of conversion from Company to LLP, a separate head has beenadded for providing the Paid up Share Capital along with the number ofshares held by the proposed partner/designate partner in the Company.
4.3 Form 3 - Information with regard to LLP Agreement For filing changes in LLP Agreement, one more criteria has been added
i.e. Change in Partners in addition to other specified criteria of Changein Business Activities, Change in Partner's contribution and % of Profitsharing etc.
4.4 Form 4 - Any change in the Partner/Designated Partner Now Form 4 will be filled only at the time of any change in the
constitution of Partner/ Designated Partner or any change in theinformation pertaining to Partner/Designated Partner. As required
earlier the form shall not be filled at the time of incorporation of LLP.
4.5 Form 8 - Statement of Account & Solvency Disclosures under Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development
Act, 2006 has been made a mandatorily attachment in Form 8. Like Companies, now the LLP needs to provide particulars for creation
or modification or satisfaction of charges in appendix to Form 8,Statement of Account and Solvency. However LLP Act 2008 is silentabout the registration of any Charge with the Registrar of LLP. Moreoverthe time period for filling of such form has not been specified.
4.6 Form 11: Annual Return of LLP To clarify the difference of the total Partners obligation for the Capital
Contribution and the Contribution actually inserted by the Partners atthe end of financial any year two specific columns has been added inthe Form 11 to differentiate between both the amounts.
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The information pertaining to particulars of addresses and other detailsof partners/designated Partners required to be filed as an addendumalong with Form 11 has now been dispensed off.
4.7 Form 12 - Intimation of other address for service of documents Form for intimating address other than the registered office for service
of documents, shall now be certified by Practicing Professionals(CS/CA/CWA) .
4.8 Form 17 - Conversion of Partnership Firm to LLP For application and statement for the conversion of a firm into LLP, only
secured creditors consent is required instead of consent of all thecreditors.
4.9 Form 18 - Conversion of Private/unlisted Company to LLP To streamline the provision of the LLP Act 2008, with the form, which
states that no security interest shall be subsisting in the assets of theCompany at the time of application, the consent of secured creditors forconversion has now been replaced with the consent from unsecuredcreditors.
4.10 Form 24 - Application for Strike Off Now at the time of filling of striking off application copy of statement of
assets and liabilities duly certified by auditor/Chartered Accountant inPractice to be annexed along with e-Form 24, earlier the Statement wasnot required to be certified.
The time edge of Statement of assets and liabilities of being not earlierthan 30 days of filling of Striking off application has been dispensedwith in the new Form.
Source: Corporate Professionals
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