Confirmation statements and confirmation of lawful purposes
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21.—(1) Regulation 30 (duty to deliver confirmation statements and notify relevant events) is amended as follows.
(2) For “Sections 853A and 853B” substitute “Sections 853A to 853BA”.
(3) For paragraph (b) of section 853A(1) of the 2006 Act(), as applied to LLPs by that regulation, substitute—
“(b)a statement (“a confirmation statement”) confirming—
(i)that the LLP has delivered to the registrar, or is delivering to the registrar at the same time as the confirmation statement, all of the information that it is required to deliver in relation to the confirmation period concerned under any duty to notify a relevant event (see section 853B), and
(ii)that the LLP is delivering to the registrar at the same time as the confirmation statement any information that it is required to deliver by virtue of a duty imposed by any of sections 853BA, 853CA and 853CB.”.
(4) For subsections (7) and (8) of section 853A of the 2006 Act, as applied to LLPs by that regulation, substitute—
“(7) For the purpose of making a confirmation statement an LLP is entitled to assume that information that has been delivered to the registrar has been properly delivered unless the registrar has notified the LLP otherwise.”.
(5) In section 853B of the 2006 Act(), as applied to LLPs by that regulation, omit paragraph (a).
(6) After section 853B of the 2006 Act, as applied to LLPs by that regulation, insert—
“Duty to confirm lawful purposes
853BA. Where an LLP makes a confirmation statement it must at the same time deliver to the registrar a statement that the intended future activities of the LLP are lawful.”.