Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Act 2020

Cases in which partnership agreement may be altered - amendment of section 11(1) of Act of 1994

13. Section 11 of the Act of 1994 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) No alteration in a partnership agreement shall be made unless the alteration has been approved by means of an instrument in writing signed by or on behalf of every partner to the partnership agreement, but this is subject to subsections (1A) and (1B).

(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the partnership agreement so stipulates, an alteration in a partnership agreement may be made if—

(a) every partner to the partnership agreement has been given notice, in accordance with the provisions of the partnership agreement in that behalf, of the proposed alteration, and

(b) the alteration is approved by means of an instrument in writing signed by or on behalf of a majority of the partners to the partnership agreement.

(1B) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an alteration in a partnership agreement may be made if the depositary of the partnership has certified in writing that the alteration does not prejudice the interests of the limited partners, but only where the following conditions are satisfied:

(a) the matter to which the alteration relates is not a matter as respects which the Bank specifies that an alteration may be made only if the alteration is approved by the means referred to in subsection (1)(which specification the Bank is empowered by this paragraph to make);

(b) the partnership agreement confers a power on the depositary of the investment limited partnership to so certify that the alteration does not prejudice the foregoing interests,

and if the partnership agreement contains a stipulation, as referred to in subsection (1A), that fact does not preclude the application of this subsection and if the partnership agreement confers a power on the depositary, as referred to in paragraph (b), that fact does not preclude the application of subsection (1A).

(1C) For the purpose of subsection (1A)(b), a majority of the partners to the partnership agreement shall be regarded as comprising the sum of—

(a) the number of general partners that constitute the majority of general partners who have approved the alteration by the means there referred to, and

(b) the number of limited partners that constitute the majority of limited partners who have approved the alteration by the means there referred to, and subsection (2) of section 19A applies for the purpose of this paragraph as it applies, in the circumstances and to the extent provided in subsection (1) of that section, for the purpose of the matters referred to in that subsection (2).”.