Queensland Consolidated Acts

PARTNERSHIP ACT 1891 - SECT 68

(1) This section applies if the chief executive reasonably believes that a limited partnership has ceased to exist because the partnership's business is not being carried on in the State under the partnership's firm name, or by the partners, stated in the register.

(2) The chief executive may, by written notice given to the person registered as the partnership's general partner and to the partnership at its registered office stated in the register--

(a) ask whether the partnership still exists; and

(b) ask for documentary proof of its existence or non-existence.

(3) The notice must state that the chief executive may cancel the partnership's registration unless the chief executive is satisfied, within 1 month after the date of the notice, that the partnership still exists.

(4) The chief executive must also, by public notice, notify the chief executive's intention to cancel the registration unless the chief executive is satisfied, by the day that is 1 month after the date of the notice mentioned in subsection (2), that the limited partnership still exists.

(5) If the chief executive is not satisfied within 1 month after the date of the notice mentioned in subsection (2) that the partnership still exists, the chief executive may cancel the registration.

(6) If the chief executive cancels the registration, the chief executive must give written notice of the cancellation--

(a) to the person registered as the partnership's general partner and to the partnership at its registered office stated in the register; and

(b) by public notice.

(7) In this section--

public notice means a notice in a newspaper circulating throughout the State.