The historical instrument and its supporting role
Made and electronically gazetted on 30 March 2017, the regulations came into operation on 31 March 2017. They implement PartVIA of the LLP Act through eight regulations and six schedules. Controller and registrability meanings remain those in 32B and 32C of the Act, while identity card follows the National Registration Act. The instrument supplies operational details rather than redefining the whole controller test. Its original timing and filing-agent terminology are preserved here; later amendments should be consulted separately for a present-day filing.
All individual and corporate particulars
An individual entry records full name, aliases if any, residential address, nationality, identity-card or passport number, birth date, start date as an individual controller and cessation date where applicable. A corporate entry records name, Registrar-issued UEN if any, registered office, legal form, formation jurisdiction and statute, that jurisdiction’s corporate register name and identification or registration number where applicable, start date as corporate controller and applicable cessation date. These are separate field sets, not merely a controller’s name and percentage. Date of entry is distinct from the date control began or ended.
Register format and permitted keeping places
The First Schedule prescribes one entry per controller with entry date and controller name, followed by Part 1 for individuals or Part 2 for corporate controllers. Keep the register at the LLP’s registered office or the registered office of a registered filing agent appointed specifically to keep it. The regulation does not identify any other address as automatically permitted and does not by itself make the register a public-search product. Complete the applicable part and retain the controller-status dates even where they differ from the entry date.
When particulars count as confirmed
For initial entries, confirmation arises from a 32G investigation response in which the person, or filing agent on the person’s behalf, confirms registrability and supplies particulars; it can also arise from the person’s 32J self-notification. Updated particulars are confirmed through a 32H change response,32I correction response or 32K self-notification with the changed or correct details. An agent can confirm on the controller’s behalf for the relevant notice responses. Confirmation must relate to the supplied particulars, rather than an LLP assuming silence means agreement.
Entry deadlines and unconfirmed records
The Second Schedule requires entering or updating confirmed particulars within two business days after confirmation. If no confirmation arrives, enter or update with an unconfirmed note within two business days after the end of thirty days from sending a 32G,32H or 32I notice. The thirty-day waiting period and subsequent two-business-day period are separate parts of the clock. Failure to receive a response does not allow an indefinite blank record. The instrument supplies the original statutory process, not authority to invent missing personal information.
The remaining eight timing rules
Investigation notices must be sent within two business days after first knowing or reasonably suspecting the relevant person; recipients have thirty days from sending to reply. Change notices must be sent within two business days after first knowing or reasonably suspecting a relevant change, again with thirty days to respond. Correction notices use the same two-business-day issue period from first knowledge or reasonable grounds that particulars are incorrect, with thirty days for reply. Controllers’ self-notification of becoming registrable is due within thirty days after knowing or reasonably being expected to know; self-notification of changed particulars has thirty days from the analogous change-knowledge trigger. Business-day deadlines must not be conflated with the calendar-day response periods.
Initial controller enquiry and knowledgeable-person enquiry
The Third Schedule notice asks whether the recipient is registrable, requests the corresponding individual or corporate fields and asks about other controllers or persons likely to know them. Information about others is supplied to the best of the recipient’s knowledge. The Fourth Schedule instead addresses someone believed to know controller identities; it asks about those people and their particulars and separately tells a recipient who is themselves registrable to notify the LLP under 32J. Both notices give the sent date, LLP reply address, thirty-day deadline, offence warning and partner-or-manager sign-off. They are different templates, not interchangeable requests.
Change and correction notices answer different questions
The Fifth Schedule change notice first asks whether the person remains registrable and, if not, the cessation date. It then reproduces existing particulars and asks whether they changed, requesting the date and details. The Sixth Schedule correction notice reproduces existing particulars and asks whether they are correct, requesting replacements if not. Both specify thirty days, the response address and offence warning, and are signed by the partner or manager for the LLP. A correction is not necessarily a later change: preserving the correct notice distinction helps avoid recording an invented effective date or overlooking cessation.
Official source
This article independently explains the substantive contents of the official PDF, including the relevant conditions, procedures and annexes. The linked document remains the authoritative source for its original wording, and later changes should be checked separately.
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