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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 17 May 2016 - onwards
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Regulation 12 Approval and signing of accounts

Section 414 applies to LLPs, modified so that it reads as follows -

"414. Approval and signing of accounts

(1) An LLP's annual accounts must be approved by the members, and signed on behalf of all the members by a designated member.

(2) The signature must be on the LLP's balance sheet.

(3) If the accounts are prepared in accordance with the small LLPs regime, the balance sheet must contain, in a prominent position above the signature -

(a) in the case of individual accounts prepared in accordance with the micro-entity provisions, a statement to that effect,

(b) in the case of accounts not prepared as mentioned in paragraph (a), a statement to the effect that the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to LLPs subject to the small LLPs regime.

(4) If annual accounts are approved that do not comply with the requirements of this Act, every member of the LLP who -

(a) knew that they did not comply, or was reckless as to whether they complied, and

(b) failed to take reasonable steps to secure compliance with those requirements or, as the case may be, to prevent the accounts from being approved,

commits an offence.