PART 1GENERAL INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009.
Commencement
2.—(1) The provisions of these Regulations come into force as follows.
(2) Regulations 8, 64, 77, 80 and 81 of, and paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 3 to, these Regulations come into force on the day after the Regulations are made for the purpose of enabling the exercise of powers to make regulations or orders by statutory instrument.
(3) Otherwise, the Regulations come into force on 1st October 2009.
Interpretation
3.—(1) In these Regulations “LLP” means a limited liability partnership registered under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a)any reference to a numbered Part, section or Schedule is to the Part, section or Schedule so numbered in the Companies Act 2006;
(b)references in provisions applied to LLPs—
(i)to provisions of the Companies Act 2006, or
(ii)to provisions of instruments made under that Act,
are to those provisions as applied to LLPs by these Regulations or by the Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008(1);
(c)references in provisions applied to LLPs to provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986(2) or the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(3) are to those provisions as applied to LLPs by the Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations 2001(4) or the Limited Liability Partnerships Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(5).