Limited partnerships

47.(1) A limited partnership is a partnership formed by two or more persons under this Part which has one or more general partners and one or more limited partners, and a limited partnership may be either a local limited partnership or an international limited partnership.

(2) A body corporate, with or without limited liability, or a partnership may be a general partner or a limited partner of a limited partnership.

(3) Subject to sections 47 to 108, sections 1 to 46 shall apply to a limited partnership.

Local limited partnership

48. A local limited partnership may be established under this Act for any object or purpose not prohibited under this Act or any law for the time being in force in the Territory and subject to

(a) the conditions, limitations, restrictions and liabilities in its memorandum and articles; and

(b) subsection (1) of section 50.

International limited partnership

49. An international limited partnership may be established under this Act for any object or purpose not prohibited under this Act or under any law for the time being in force in the Territory and subject to

(a) the conditions, limitations, restrictions and liabilities in its memorandum and articles; and

(b) subsections (1) and (2) of section 50.  

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Restrictions on limited partnership

50. (1) A limited partnership shall not carry on

(a) banking business;

(b) trust business;

(c) the business of insurance, reinsurance, insurance agent, insurance adjuster or insurance broker or any other kind of insurance business; or

(d) the business of company management unless it is licensed or is exempt from being licensed under the Company Management Act.

(2) An international limited partnership shall not

(a) carry on business with persons resident in the Territory;

(b) own an interest in real property situate in the Territory other than a lease referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection (3).

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (2), an international limited partnership shall not be treated as carrying on business with persons resident in the Territory by reason only that

(a) it transacts banking business in the Territory with or through a bank licensed under the Banks and Trust Companies Act;

(b) it makes or maintains professional contact with solicitors, barristers, accountants, bookkeepers, trust companies, administration companies, investment advisers or other similar persons carrying on business within the Territory;

(c) it prepares or maintains books and records within the Territory;

(d) it holds, within the Territory, meetings of its partners;

(e) it holds a lease of property for use as an office from which to communicate with partners or where books and records of the partnership are prepared or maintained;

(f) it holds shares, debt obligations or other securities in a company incorporated under the International Business Companies Act; or

(g) any person resident in the Territory or any company registered under the Companies Act or incorporated under the International Business Companies Act is one of its partners.

(4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act and in the Company Management Act, an international limited partnership

(a) may serve as a general partner of another international limited partnership;

(b) may hold, within the Territory, meetings of its partners, managers or advisers; and

(c) shall not be required to hold a licence under the provisions of the Company Management Act for the purposes mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b).  

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Effect of failure to satisfy the requirements of section 50.

51.(1) Where an international limited partnership is formed under this Act without having satisfied the requirements prescribed for an international limited partnership by section 49, or if having satisfied the requirements it subsequently ceases to satisfy the requirements for a continuous period of thirty days, the international limited partnership shall, upon the expiration of the period notify the Registrar of that fact.

(2) A general partner of an international limited partnership that contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $100 for each day or part thereof during which the contravention continues.

Registrar

52. The Registrar of Companies appointed under the Companies Act and any other officer so appointed who acts under the delegated authority of the Registrar pursuant to section 207(6) of the Companies Act shall be the Registrar of Limited Partnerships.

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Procedure for forming a limited partnership

53.(1) Two or more persons desiring to form a limited partnership shall execute articles and shall submit them to the registered agent named in the articles and shall cause a memorandum to be submitted to the Registrar.

(2) The memorandum shall include

(a) the firm-name;

(b) the objects and purposes for which the partnership is established;

(c) the address of the registered office of the partnership in the Territory;

(d) the name and address of registered agent of the partnership in the Territory;

(e) the full name of each of the general partners and their respective addresses;

(f) the term, if any, for which the partnership is to exist;

(g) a statement that the partnership is limited;

(h) a statement that every partner not named as a general partner in the memorandum is a limited partner;

(i) in the case of an international limited partnership, a statement that the limited partnership may not carry on the activities set forth in subsections (1) and (2) of section 50 which statement shall set forth verbatim the activities described in that subsection; and

(j) such other information, if any, as the registered agent shall be instructed to include in the memorandum by the provisions of the articles.

(3) The memorandum shall be subscribed by the registered agent named in the memorandum in the presence of another person who shall sign his name as a witness.

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Establishment of register

54.(1) The Registrar shall establish and maintain in such form as he shall determine, a register of limited partnerships in which shall be registered each memorandum submitted pursuant to sections 53 and 57 and all certificates and advertisements required by this Act.

(2) The register shall be open, during office hours, to the inspection of all persons desiring to view the register.

(3) A certificate of the Registrar certifying that anything required by this Act to be registered by him has been so registered shall be received in all courts and in all proceedings whatsoever as evidence of the matter to which the certificate relates.

Certificate of limited partnership

55.(1) Upon payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar shall register each memorandum of partnership submitted pursuant to section 53 and shall issue a certificate of limited partnership under his hand and seal certifying that the partnership is formed in the Territory as a local limited partnership or an international limited partnership, as the case may be.

(2) Upon the issue by the Registrar of a certificate of limited partnership, the partnership is, from the date shown on the certificate of limited partnership, a limited partnership under the name contained in the memorandum.

(3) A certificate of limited partnership of a limited partnership formed under this Act issued by the Registrar is prima facie evidence of compliance with all requirements of this Act with respect to the formation of a limited partnership.

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Effect of failure to register

56. A limited partnership shall be registered as such in accordance with section 53 and in default thereof it shall be deemed to be a general partnership and every partner thereof shall be deemed to be a general partner.

Amendment of the memorandum and articles of partnership

57.(1) The memorandum and articles may be amended in such manner as may be set forth in the articles.

(2) Where a change is made or a change occurs in or with respect to any of the details set forth in the memorandum registered with the Registrar the limited partnership shall cause a supplementary memorandum to be submitted to the Registrar.

(3) The supplementary memorandum referred to in subsection (2) shall be subscribed by the registered agent named therein in the presence of another person who shall sign his name as a witness.

(4) The Registrar shall upon payment of the prescribed fee register in the register each supplementary memorandum submitted pursuant to this section and shall issue a certificate of amendment which shall set forth particulars of the amendment.

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Contribution

58. The contribution of a limited partner may be cash, property or services.

Name

59.(1) The name of each limited partnership formed under this Act shall have at its end the words "Limited Partnership" or the abbreviation "L.P."

(2) The name of a limited partner shall not appear in the name of a limited partnership, unless

(a) it is also the name of a general partner; or

(b) prior to the time when the limited partner became a limited partner the business had been carried on under a name in which the name of the limited partner appeared.

(3) A limited partner whose name appears in the name of a limited partnership contrary to the provisions of subsection (2) is liable as a general partner to partnership creditors who extend credit to the partnership without actual knowledge that he is not a general partner.

(4) No limited partnership shall be formed under this Act under a name that

(a) is identical with that under which a limited partnership in existence under this Act is formed or a company is incorporated under the International Business Companies Act or registered under the Companies Act, the Limited Life Companies Act or the Business Names Registration Act or so nearly resembles the name as to be calculated to deceive, except where the partnership or company in existence gives its consent; or

(b) contains the words "Assurance", "Bank", "Chartered", "Cooperative", "Imperial", "Insurance", "Municipal", "Royal", "Trust", "Trustee" or a word or abbreviation conveying a similar meaning, or any other word or abbreviation that, in the opinion of the Registrar, suggests or is calculated to suggest

(i) the patronage of Her Majesty or that of a member of the Royal Family;

(ii) a connection with Her Majesty' s Government or a department thereof; or

(iii) a connection with a municipality or other local authority or with a society or body incorporated by Royal Charter, except with the approval of the Registrar in writing.

(5) A limited partnership may amend its memorandum to change its name.

(6) If a limited partnership formed under a name that

(a) is identical with a name under which a limited partnership in existence under this Act is formed or under which a company in existence was incorporated under the International Business Companies Act or registered under the Companies Act, or

(b) so nearly resembles the name as to be calculated to deceive,

the Registrar may, without the consent of the limited partnership in existence, give notice to the last registered limited partnership to change its name and if it fails to do so within 60 days from the date of the notice, the Registrar shall amend the memorandum to change its name to such name as the Registrar deems appropriate, and the Registrar shall publish notice of the change in the Gazette.

(7) Subject to subsections (4) and (6) where a limited partnership changes its name, the Registrar shall enter the new name on the register and, upon payment of the prescribed Fee, shall issue a certificate of amendment which shall set forth particulars of the amendment.

(8) A change of name does not affect any right or obligation of a limited partnership, or render defective any legal proceedings by or against a limited partnership, and all legal proceedings that have been commenced against a limited partnership in its former name may be continued against it in its new name.

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Reservation of name

60.(1) Subject to subsection (4) of section 59 the Registrar may upon the application of any person and upon payment of the prescribed fee, reserve for a period of ninety days a name for future adoption by a limited partnership under this Act.

(2) Once having reserved a name under subsection (1), the same applicant may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, again reserve the same name for successive ninety day periods.

(3) The right to the exclusive use of a reserved name may be transferred to any other person by paying the prescribed fee and by filing with the Registrar a notice of the transfer executed by the applicant for whom the name was reserved specifying the name to be transferred and the name and address of the transferee.

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Liability for false statements in Memorandum.

61. If a memorandum contains a false statement, one who suffers loss by reliance on such statement may hold liable the general partners and the registered agent who made the statement and who knew or should have known the statement to be false

(a) at the time the registered agent signed the memorandum; or

(b) after the memorandum was signed, but within a sufficient time before the statement was relied upon to allow the filing of a supplementary memorandum with the necessary changes.

Liability of limited partner to third parties

62.(1) A limited partner is not liable for the obligations of a limited partnership unless he is also a general partner or, in addition to the exercise of his rights and powers as a limited partner, he participates in the control of the partnership business and, if the limited partner participates in the control of partnership business, he is liable only to persons who transact business with the limited partnership reasonably believing, based upon the limited partner's conduct, that the limited partner is a general partner.

(2) A limited partner shall not be deemed to participate in the control of the partnership business within the meaning of subsection (1) by virtue of his possessing or, regardless of whether or not the limited partner has the rights or powers, or exercising or attempting to exercise one or more of the following rights or powers having or, regardless of whether or not the limited partner has the rights or powers, acting or attempting to act in one or more of the following capacities:

(a) to be an independent contractor for or to transact business with, including being a contractor for, or to be an agent or employee of, the limited partnership or a general partner, or to be a limited partner of a partnership that is a general partner of the limited partnership, or to be a trustee, administrator, executor, custodian or other fiduciary or beneficiary of an estate or trust which is a general partner, or to be a trustee, officer, advisor, stockholder or beneficiary of a business trust which is a general partner or to be a member, manager agent or employee of a limited liability company which is a general partner;

(b) to consult with or advise a general partner with respect to any matter, including the business of the limited partnership;

(c) to act as surety, guarantor or endorser for the limited partnership or a general partner, to guarantee or assume one or more obligations of the limited partnership or a general partner, to borrow money from the limited partnership or a general partner, to lend money to the limited partnership or a general partner, or to provide collateral for the limited partnership or a general partner;

(d) to call, request, or attend or participate at a meeting of the partners or the limited partners;

(e) to wind up a limited partnership pursuant to this Act;

(f) to take any action required or permitted by law to bring, pursue or settle or otherwise terminate a derivative action in the right of the limited partnership;

(g) to serve on a committee of the limited partnership or the limited partners or to appoint, elect or otherwise participate in the choice of a representative or another person to serve on any such committee, and to act as a member of any such committee directly or by or through any such representative or other person;

(h) to act or cause the taking or refraining from the taking of any action, including by proposing, approving, consenting or disapproving by voting or otherwise, with respect to one or more of the following matters:

(i) the dissolution and winding up of the limited partnership or an election to continue the limited partnership or an election to continue the business of the limited partnership;

(ii) the sale, exchange, lease, mortgage, assignment, pledge or other transfer of, or granting of a security interest in, any asset or assets of the limited partnership;

(iii) the incurrence, renewal, refinancing or payment or other discharge of indebtedness by the limited partnership;

(iv) a change in the nature of the business;

(v) the admission, removal or retention of a general partner;

(vi) the admission, removal or retention of a limited partner;

(vii) a transaction or other matter involving an actual or potential conflict of interest;

(viii) an amendment to the memorandum or articles of partnership;

(ix) the merger or consolidation of a limited partnership;

(x) the making of or calling for or the making of other determinations in connection with contributions;

(xi) the indemnification of any partner or other person; or

(xii) such other matters as are stated in the memorandum of partnership or in any written agreement;

(i) to serve on the board of directors or a committee of, to consult with or advise, to be an officer, director, stockholder, partner (other than a general partner of a general partner of the limited partnership), member, manager, trustee, agent or employee of, or to be a fiduciary or contractor for, any person in which the limited partnership has an interest or any person providing management, consulting, advisory, custody or other services or products for, to or on behalf of, or otherwise having a business or other relationship with, the limited partnership or a general partner of the limited partnership; or

(j) any right or power granted or permitted to limited partners under this Act and not specifically enumerated in this subsection.

(3) The list of powers and capacities set forth in subsection (2) shall not be construed as exclusive or as indicating that any other powers possessed or exercised or any other capacities held or acted in by a limited partner shall be sufficient to cause the limited partner to be deemed to take part in the control of the partnership business within the meaning of subsection (1).

(4) This section does not create rights or powers of limited partners, such rights and powers may be created only by the memorandum and articles, a partnership agreement or any other agreement or in writing, or by other sections of this Act.

(5) A limited partner shall not be deemed to participate in the control of the partnership business within the meaning of subsection (1) by

(a) his possessing any one or more of the rights or powers set forth in subsection (2) regardless of the nature, extent, scope, or frequency of his possession of the rights or powers; or

(b) his exercising or attempting to exercise one or more of the rights or powers set forth in subsection (2) regardless of whether he possesses the rights or powers; or

(c) his holding or acting or attempting to act in one or more of the capacities set forth in subsection (2) regardless of whether he has the right or power to hold or act in those capacities.

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Admission of additional limited partners

63. After the formation of a limited partnership, additional limited partners may be admitted upon making an amendment to the articles.

Rights, powers and liabilities of a general partner

64. A general partner shall have all the rights and powers and be subject to all the restrictions and liabilities of a partner in a partnership without limited partners, except that without the written consent or ratification of the specific act by all the limited partners, a general partner or all the general partners have no authority to do any one or more of the following:

(a) do any act in contravention of the articles;

(b) do any act which would make it impossible to carry on the ordinary business of the partnership;

(c) enter a judgment against the partnership;

(d) possess partnership property, or assign their rights in specific partnership property, for other than a partnership purpose;

(e) admit a person as a general partner, unless the right so to do is given in the articles;

(f) admit a person as a limited partner, unless the right so to do is given in the articles; or

(g) continue the business with partnership property on the death, retirement, bankruptcy or incapacity of a general partner, unless the right so to do is given in the articles.

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Rights of a Limited Partner

65.(1) A limited partner shall have the same rights as a general partner to

(a) inspect at all times and to copy any of the partnership books;

(b) receive on demand

(i) true and full information of all things affecting the partnership, and

(ii) a formal account of partnership affairs whenever circumstances render it just and reasonable; and

(c) subject to any limitation set forth in the articles apply to the court for an order that the partnership be dissolved and wound up.

(2) A limited partner shall have the right to receive a share of the profits or other compensation by way of income, and to the return of his contribution as provided in sections 71 and 78.

Status of person erroneously believing himself to be a limited partner

66. A person who has contributed to the capital of a business conducted by a person or partnership erroneously believing that he has become a limited partner in a limited partnership is not, by reason of his exercise of the rights of a limited partner, a general partner with the person or in the partnership carrying on the business or bound by the obligations of such person or partnership if on ascertaining the mistake he promptly renounces his interest in the profits of the business or other compensation by way of income.

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One person both general and limited partner

67.(1) A person may be a general partner and a limited partner in the same partnership at the same time.

(2) A person who is a general partner, and also at the same time a limited partner, shall have all the rights and powers and be subject to all the restrictions of a general partner, except that in respect to his contribution he shall have the rights against the other partners which he would have had if he were not also a general partner.

Loans and other business transactions with limited partner

68.(1) A limited partner may loan money to and transact other business with the partnership, and, unless he is also a general partner, receive on account of resulting claims against the partnership, with general creditors, a pro rata share of the assets.

(2) No limited partner shall in respect to any such claim

(a) receive or hold as collateral security any partnership property; or

(b) receive from a general partner or the partnership any payment, conveyance or release from liability, if at the time the assets of the partnership are not sufficient to discharge partnership liabilities to persons not claiming as general partners or limited partners.

(3) The receiving of collateral security, payment, conveyance or release in violation of subsection (2) is a fraud on the creditors of the partnership.

Relation of limited partners inter se

69.(1) Where there are several limited partners, the partners may agree that one or more of the limited partners shall have a priority over other limited partners as to

(a) the return of their contributions;

(b) their compensation by way of income; or

(c) any other matter.

(2) If such an agreement is made, it shall be stated in the articles, and in the absence of such a statement all the limited partners shall stand upon equal footing in proportion to their respective contributions actually made to the partnership.

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Compensation of limited partner

70. A limited partner may receive from the partnership the share of the profits or the compensation by way of income stipulated in the articles, provided that after the payment is made, whether from the property of the partnership or that of a general partner, the partnership assets are in excess of all liabilities of the partnership except liabilities to limited partners on account of their contributions and to general partners.

Withdrawal or reduction of limited partner's contribution

71.(1) A limited partner shall not receive from a general partner or out of partnership property any part of his contribution until

(a) all liabilities of the partnership, except liabilities to general partners and to limited partners on account of their contributions, have been paid or there remains property of the partnership sufficient to pay them;

(b) the consent of all partners is given, unless the return of the contribution may be rightfully demanded under subsection (2); and

(c) the articles are amended as to set forth the withdrawal or reduction provided that no amendment is required where the withdrawal or reduction occurs in accordance with the articles.

(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (1), a limited partner may rightfully demand the return of his contribution

(a) upon the dissolution of the partnership unless its business is continued pursuant to the exercise by other partners of a right or power set forth in the articles; or

(b) when the time specified in the articles for its return has arrived or the events set forth in the articles on the happening of which its return shall be made has occurred; or

(c) after he has given six months' notice in writing to all other partners if no time is specified in the articles either for the return of the contribution or for the dissolution of the partnership and no events are set forth in the articles on the happening of which the return of the contribution shall occur.

(3) In the absence of any statement in the articles to the contrary or the consent of all partners, a limited partner, irrespective of the nature of his contribution, has only the right to demand and receive cash in return for his contribution.

(4) A limited partner may have the partnership dissolved and its affairs wound up when

(a) he rightfully but unsuccessfully demands the return of his contribution; or

(b) the other liabilities of the partnership have not been paid or the partnership property is insufficient for their payment as required by paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and the limited partner would otherwise be entitled to the return of his contribution.

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Liability of limited partner to partnership

72.(1) A limited partner is liable to the partnership

(a) for the difference between his contribution as actually made and that stated in the articles as having been made; and

(b) for any unpaid contribution which he agreed in the articles to make in the future at the time and on the conditions stated in the articles.

(2) A limited partner holds as trustee for the partnership

(a) specific property stated in the articles as contributed by him but which was not contributed or which has been wrongfully returned; and

(b) money or other property wrongfully paid or conveyed to him on account of his contribution.

(3) The liabilities of a limited partner as set forth in this section can be waived or compromised only by the consent of all partners, but a waiver or compromise shall not affect the right of a creditor of a partnership who extended credit or whose claim arose before an amendment of the articles to enforce such liabilities.

(4) A limited partner who receives any part of his contribution in violation of subsection (1) of section 71 and who knew at the time of the receipt that the withdrawal or reduction of this contribution violated subsection (1) of section 71 shall be liable to the limited partnership for the amount of the withdrawal or reduction and a limited partner who receives any part of his contribution in violation of subsection (1) of section 71 and who did not know at the time of the receipt that the withdrawal or reduction violated subsection (1) of section 71 shall not be liable for the amount of the distribution.

(5) Subject to subsection (6), subsection (4) shall not affect any obligation or liability of a limited partner under a partnership agreement or other applicable law for the amount of the withdrawal or deduction received.

(6) Unless otherwise agreed, a limited partner who receives any part of his contribution from a limited partnership shall have no liability under this Act or other applicable law for the amount received after the expiration of three years from the date of receipt.

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Assignment of limited partner's interest

73.(1) Unless otherwise provided in the articles, a limited partner's interest is assignable.

(2) The successor in interest of a limited partner who has died shall have all the rights of an assignee of that limited partner's interest until the successor in interest is admitted as a substituted limited partner.

Admission as a substituted limited partner

74. (1) An assignee has the right to become a substituted limited partner if

(a) all the partners, except the assignor, consent thereto;

(b) the assignor, being empowered by the articles gives the assignee that right; or

(c) the articles condition the admission of the assignee on the prior approval of one or more partners other than the assignor, and such approval is obtained.

(2) An assignee becomes a substituted limited partner upon the execution of the necessary amendment to the articles reflecting such admission or such later date as is set forth in the amendment, provided that where the assignor's identity is set forth in the memorandum such admission shall not become effective until the memorandum shall have been amended in accordance with section 57.

(3) A substituted limited partner has all the rights and powers which were possessed by the assignor and, subject to subsection (4), is subject to all the restrictions and liabilities to which the assignor was subject regardless of whether the substituted limited partner had knowledge of those restrictions and liabilities at the time he became a substituted limited partner and regardless of whether those restrictions and liabilities were ascertainable from the articles.

(4) The substitution of an assignee as a limited partner does not release the assignor from liability to the partnership under section 72.

(5) An assignee who does not become a substituted limited partner has no right to require any information or account of the partnership transactions or to inspect the partnership books but is only entitled to receive the share of the profits or other compensation by way of income, or the return of contribution to which the assignor would otherwise be entitled.

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Effect of retirement, death, incapacity or bankruptcy of a general partner

75. The retirement, death, incapacity, or bankruptcy or insolvency of a general partner dissolves the partnership, unless the business is continued by the remaining general partners

(a) under a right so to do stated in the articles; or

(b) with the consent of all partners.

Death of limited partner

76.(1) On the death of a limited partner his executor or administrator shall have all the rights of a limited partner for the purpose of settling his estate and such power as the deceased had to constitute his assignee a substituted limited partner.

(2) The estate of a deceased limited partner shall be liable for all his liabilities as a limited partner.

Rights of creditors of limited partner

77.(1) On due application to a court of competent jurisdiction by any judgment creditor of a limited partner, the court may

(a) charge the partnership interest of the indebted limited partner with payment of the unsatisfied amount of the judgment debt;

(b) appoint a receiver of the limited partner's interest in the partnership; and

(c) make all other orders, directions and inquiries which the circumstances of the case may require.

(2) The interest to be charged pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (1) may be redeemed with the separate property of any general partner but may not be redeemed with partnership property.

(3) The remedies conferred by subsection (1) shall not be deemed exclusive of others which may exist.

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Distribution of assets

78.(1) In settling accounts after dissolution the liabilities of the partnership shall be entitled to payment in the following order:

(a) those to creditors, in the order of priority as provided by law, except those to limited partners on account of their contributions, and to general partners;

(b) except as otherwise provided in the articles -

(i) those to limited partners in respect of their share of the profits and other compensation by way of income on their contributions;

(ii) those to limited partners in respect of the capital of their contributions;

(iii) those to general partners other than for capital and profits;

(iv) those to general partners in respect of profits; and

(v) those to general partners in respect of capital.

(2) Subject to any provision in the articles, limited partners share in the partnership assets in respect of their claims for capital, and in respect of their claims for profits or for compensation by way of income on their contributions, respectively, in proportion to the amounts of such claims.

Service of notice on partners

79.(1) Any notice, information or written statement required under this Act to be given by a limited partnership formed under this Act to partners must be served

(a) in the manner prescribed in the articles;

(b) in the absence of a provision in the articles, by personal service or by mail addressed to each partner at the address shown in the articles.

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Service of process, etc., on limited partnership

80.(1) Any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on a limited partnership formed under this Act may be served by leaving it, or by sending it by registered mail addressed to the limited partnership, at its registered office, or by leaving it with, or by sending it by registered mail to, the registered agent of the limited partnership.

(2) Service of any summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement to be served on a limited partnership formed under this Act may be proved by showing that the summons, notice, order, document, process, information or written statement

(a) was mailed in such time as to admit its being delivered in the normal course of delivery, within the period prescribed for service; and

(b) was correctly addressed and the postage was prepaid.

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