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COMPANIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 135



135.(1) So much of section 4(2) of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 as
provides that a limited partnership [(other than a partnership carrying on the
business of banking)]shall not consist of more than twenty persons shall not
apply

(a)to a partnership carrying on practice as solicitors and consisting of
persons each of whom is a solicitor;

(b)to a partnership carrying on practice as accountants and consisting of
persons each of whom falls within Article 26(1);

(c)to a partnership carrying on business as members of a recognised stock
exchange and consisting of persons each of whom is a member of that exchange.

(2) The Department may by regulations provide that so much of section 4(2) of
the said Act of 1907 as provides that a limited partnership [(other than a
partnership carrying on the business of banking)] shall not consist of more
than twenty persons shall not apply to a partnership (other than one permitted
by virtue of paragraph (1)) carrying on business of a description specified in
the regulations, being a partnership of a description so specified.

Arts.136144 amend ss.18, 63, 80, 86, 110, 127, 130, 137 of, and insert
ss.103A, 319A in, 1960 c.22 (NI)



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