Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the Limited Liability Partnerships (Amendment) Act 2024 enforced from 16 April 2025
21 April 2025
Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the
Limited Liability Partnerships (Amendment) Act 2024 (“
Amendment Act”) came into operation on
16 April 2025 vide Gazette Notification P.U.(B) 140/2025 published on 15 April 2025.
The aforesaid provisions of the Amendment Act introduce the following amendments to the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2012 (“
Principal Act”):
- Section 8 of the Amendment Act introduces a new section 70A into the Principal Act to provide a 30-day time period to take an action or provide a document where a time frame to do so is not stipulated in the Principal Act.
- Section 9 of the Amendment Act amends section 76 of the Principal Act to provide that a document may be served on a limited liability partnership (“LLP”):
- by ordinary or registered post to its last known registered office or registered principal place of business, as the case may be; or
- by electronic means to the address or numbers provided by the LLP.
Prior to the amendment, section 76 of the Principal Act provided that a document may be served on a LLP by leaving it at or sending it by post to the LLP’s registered office.
- Section 10 of the Amendment Act introduces a new section 76A into the Principal Act to provide an option to publish or advertise on the website of the Companies Commission of Malaysia, any information which is required under the Principal Act to be published or advertised in a newspaper.
It may be recalled that sections 2 to 5, 11(a) and 13 of the Amendment Act have come into operation on 31 January 2025. Our summary of the amendments introduced by these provisions can be accessed
here.
With the coming into operation of sections 8 to 10 of the Amendment Act, the only provisions of the Amendment Act that have yet to come into operation are sections 6, 7, 11(b) and 12 which will introduce a framework for corporate voluntary arrangement and judicial management into the Principal Act.
Article by Phua Pao Yii (Partner), Tan Wei Liang (Partner) and Chong Cai Yi (Associate) of the Corporate Practice of Skrine.