(4.) Applications to the court to wind up a limited partner ship, shall be by petition under the Companies Act, 1893, and the provisions of that Act relating to the winding-up of companies by the court, and of the rules made thereunder (including provisions as to fees), shall, subject to such modifications, if any, as the Governor may by rules provide, apply to the winding-up by the court of limited partnership, with the substitution of general partners for directors.

(5.) Subject to any agreement expressed or implied between the partners

(a.) Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected
with the partnership business may be decided by a
majority of the general partners;

(b.) A limited partner may, with the consent of the general
partners, assign his share in the partnership, and upon
such an assignment the assignee shall become a limited
partner with all the rights of the assignor;

(c.) The other partners shall not be entitled to dissolve the
partnership by reason of any limited partner suffering
his share to be charged for his separate debt;

(d.) A person may be introduced as a partner without the
consent of the existing limited partners;

(e.) A limited partner shall not be entitled to dissolve the
partnership by notice.

7. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Partnership Act, 1895, and the rules of equity and of common law applicable to partnerships, except so far as they are inconsistent with the express provisions of the last-mentioned Act, shall apply to limited partnerships.

8. The registration of a limited partnership shall be effected by sending by post or delivering to the Registrar a statement signed by the partners containing the following particulars:

(a.) The firm name;

(b.) The general nature of the business:

(c.) The principal place of business;

(d.) The full name of each of the partners;

(e.) The term, if any, for which the partnership is entered
into, and the date of its commencement ;

(f.) A statement that the partnership is limited, and the de-
scription of every limited partner as such ;

(g.) The sum contributed by each limited partner, and
whether paid in cash or how otherwise.

9.

Registration of

9. (1.) If, during the continuance of a limited partnership, any

changes in partner change is made or occurs in :

ships.

Ibid., s. 9.

Notice in Gazette of general partner be

(a.) The firm name;

(b.) The general nature of the business;

(c.) The principal place of business;

(d.) The partners or the name of any partner ;

(e.) The term or character of the partnership;

(f.) The sum contributed by any limited partner;

(g.) The liability of any partner by reason of his becoming a limited instead of a general partner or a general instead of a limited partner,

a statement, signed by the firm, specifying the nature of the change shall, within seven days, be sent by post or delivered to the registrar.

(2.) If default is made in compliance with the requirements of this section, each of the general partners shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one pound for each day during which the default continues.

10. Notice of any arrangement or transaction under which any coming a limited person will cease to be a general partner in any firm, and will bepartner and of as- come a limited partner in that firm, or under which the share of a signment of share limited partner in a firm will be assigned to any person, shall be

of limited partner.

• 【bid, s. 10.

Ad valorem stamp duty on contributions by limited partners.

Ibid., s. 11.

Making false

forthwith advertised in the "Government Gazette," and until notice of the arrangement or transaction is so advertised, the arrangement or transaction shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be of no effect.

11. The statement of the amount contributed by a limited partner, and a statement of any increase in that amount, sent to the registrar for registration under this Act, shall be charged with ad valorem stamp duty of five shillings for every one hundred pounds, and any fraction of one hundred pounds over any multiple of one hundred pounds, of the amount so contributed, or of the increase of that amount, as the case may be; and in default of payment of stamp duty thereon as herein required, the duty, with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. per annum from the date of delivery of such statement, shall be a joint and several debt to His Majesty, recoverable from the partners, or any of them, in the said statements named, or, in the case of an increase, from all or any of the said partners whose discontinuance in the firm shall not, before the date of delivery of such statement of increase, have been duly notified to the Registrar.

12. Every one commits a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to returns to be mis- imprisonment with hard labour for a term not exceeding two years,

demeanour.

who

Ibid., s. 12.

who makes, signs, sends, or delivers for the purpose of registration. under this Act any false statement known by him to be false.

statement and issue certificate of regis

13. On receiving any statement made in pursuance of this Act, Registrar to file the Registrar shall cause the same to be filed, and he shall send by post to the firm from whom such statement shall have been re- tration. ceived a certificate of the registration thereof.

Ibid., s. 13.

14. The Registrar shall keep, in proper books to be provided Register and index for the purpose, a register and an index of all the limited partner to be kept. ships registered as aforesaid, and of all the statements registered Ibid., s. 14. in relation to such partnerships.

stock companies to be registrar under Act.

15. The Registrar of Companies shall be the Registrar of Registrar of joint limited partnerships, and the office for the registration of companies in Perth shall be the office for the registration of limited partnerships.

Ibid., s. 15.

Ibid., s. 15.

16. (1.) Any person may inspect the statements filed by the Inspection of stateRegistrar in the register offices aforesaid, and there shall be paid ments registered. for such inspection such fees as may be appointed by the Governor, not exceeding one shilling for each inspection; and any person may require a certificate of the registration of any limited partnership, or a copy of or extract from any registered statement, to be certified by the Registrar, and there shall be paid for such certificate of registration, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Governor may appoint, not exceeding two shillings for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding sixpence for each folio of seventy-two words.

(2.) A certificate of registration, or a copy of or extract from any statement registered under this Act, if duly certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar (whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be the Registrar) shall, in all legal proceedings, civil or criminal, and in all cases whatsoever be received in evidence.

17. The Governor may make rules concerning any of the Power to make following matters:

(a.) The fees to be paid to the Registrar under this Act, so
that they do not exceed in the case of the original
registration of a limited partnership the sum of two
pounds, and in any other case the sum of five shillings;
(b.) The duties or additional duties to be performed by the
Registrar for the purposes of this Act;

(c.) The forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;
(d.) Generally the conduct and regulation of registration
under this Act and any matters incidental thereto.

By Authority: FRED. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.

rules.

Ibid., s. 17.

AN ACT to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and from Moneys to Credit of the Trust Fund and the General Loan Fund to the Services of the Year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and nine, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

[Assented to 6th February, 1909.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

WF. Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Preamble,

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Sums hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent

Majesty,