(1) The general partners in a limited partnership must ensure that its registered email address is at all times an appropriate email address.
(2) An email address is an "appropriate email address" if, in the ordinary course of events, emails sent to it by the registrar would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the limited partnership.
(3) If the general partners fail to comply with this section an offence is committed by each general partner who is in default.
(4) But where the general partner is a legal entity, it does not commit an offence as a general partner in default unless one of its managing officers is in default.
(5) Where any such offence is committed by a general partner that is a legal entity, or any such offence is by virtue of this subsection committed by a managing officer that is a legal entity, any managing officer of the legal entity also commits the offence if -
(a) the managing officer is an individual who is in default, or
(b) the
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