LLP Partners to obtain DPIN Number before appointment from MCA in DIR 3 – Notification

LLP Partners to obtain DPIN Number before appointment from MCA at par with DIN requirement for company directors. Limited Liability Partnership Amendment Rules 2018.

DIR-3 and DIR-6 have also been modified simultaneously by Companies (Appointment and Qualification of Directors) Third Amendment Rules, 2018.

Designated Partner’s Identification Number

Government of India
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Notification

New Delhi, dated 12th June., 2019

G.S.R. _ (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 79 of the Limited Liability Parhrership Act, 2008 (6 ot 2009), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Limited Liability Partnership Rules, 2009, namely: –

1. (1) Short Title and commencement. – These rules may be called the Limited Liability Partnership (Amendment) Rules, 2018.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Limited Liability Partnership Rules, 2009, in rule 10, –

(a) for sub-rule(1), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely: –

“(1) Every individual, who intends to be appointed as a designated partner of an existing limited liability partnership, shall make an application electronically in Form DIR-3 under the Companies (Appointment and Qualifications of Directors) Rules, 2014 for obtaining DPIN under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 and such DIN shall be sufficient for being appointed as designated partner under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008.”

(b) in sub-rule (4), for clause (i) , the following clause shall be substituted, namely: –

“(i) Every individual who has been allotted a DPIN or DIN under these rules, shall in the event of any change in his particulars, make an application in Form DIR-6 under Companies (Appointment and Qualifications of Directors) Rules, 2014 to intimate such change(s) to the Central Government within a period of thirty days of such change(s).”

[F. No. 17 /61/2016-CL-V(Pt.1)]

K. V. R. MURTY, Joint Secretary

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