Section 39:
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
39. Records to be kept
(1) Every limited partnership shall keep the following or a copy thereof at
its registered office—
(a) the partnership agreement and every amendment thereof;
(b) a register of all the partners—
(i) specifying whether the partners are general partners or limited partners; and
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(ii) showing, in the case of an individual, his full name and
address, or in the case of a body corporate or unincorporated body, its full name, its registered office or, if none,
its principal place of business;
(c) the account of the capital contribution of each limited partner,
showing whichever of the following is applicable in relation to
him—
(i) the amounts and dates of his contributions;
(ii) the amounts agreed to be contributed and the times at which
or events upon which the contributions are to be made;
(iii) the amount and date of any payment representing a return
of his contributions or any part thereof;
(iv) where an agreement to make a contribution is released in
whole or in part, the amount and date of the release;
(d) its accounting records, which shall—
(i) be sufficient to show and explain the transactions of the
limited partnership;
(ii) disclose with reasonable accuracy, at any time, the financial position of the limited partnership at that time;
(iii) enable the general partners to ensure that the balance
sheet and profit and loss account of the limited partnership
are prepared properly and in accordance with any applicable enactment; and
(iv) contain day-to-day entries of money received and spent by
the limited partnership and the matters to which it relates
and a record of the assets and liabilities of the limited partnership;
(e) the minutes of all meetings of the general partners;
(f) all documents from time to time filed with the Registrar, including
but not limited to the declaration referred to in section 19 (2) (d);
and
(g) such other document or information as may be required to be
kept by the Registrar.
(2) Any accounting record which a limited partnership is required to keep
under this section shall be preserved by it for a period of at least 7 years
from the date on which it is made.
(3) The documents referred to in subsection (1) (b) and (c) shall be prima
facie evidence of the matters required to be stated therein.
(4) Any duty imposed by law to allow inspection or to furnish a copy of
any account, record or other document required under this Act to be kept
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by a limited partnership shall be treated, where the matters in question are
recorded in non-legible form, as a duty to allow inspection, or to furnish a
copy of the relevant part of the recording in a legible form.