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PARTNERSHIP ACT 1958 - SECT 117

Assumptions that can be made under section 116

    (1)     A person may assume that the partnership agreement of the incorporated limited partnership has been complied with.

    (2)     A person may assume that anyone who appears, from information provided by the incorporated limited partnership that is available to the public from the Register, to be a general partner in the incorporated limited partnership

        (a)     is a general partner in the incorporated limited partnership; and

        (b)     has authority to exercise the powers and perform the duties customarily exercised or performed by a general partner in an incorporated limited partnership.

    (3)     A person may assume that anyone who is held out by the incorporated limited partnership to be a general partner in, or an agent of, the incorporated limited partnership

        (a)     is a general partner in the incorporated limited partnership or has been duly appointed as an agent of the incorporated limited partnership, as the case requires; and

        (b)     has authority to exercise the powers and perform the duties customarily exercised or performed by that kind of partner in, or agent of, an incorporated limited partnership.

    (4)     A person may assume that the general partners in, and agents of, the incorporated limited partnership properly perform their duties to the incorporated limited partnership.

    (5)     A person may assume that a document has been duly executed by the incorporated limited partnership if the document appears to have been signed in accordance with section 115(2).

    (6)     A person may assume that a document has been duly executed by the incorporated limited partnership if the incorporated limited partnership's common seal appears to have been affixed to the document in accordance with section 115(1).

    (7)     A person may assume that a general partner in, or agent of, the incorporated limited partnership who has authority to issue a document or certified copy of a document on its behalf also has authority to warrant that the document is genuine or is a true copy.

    (8)     Without limiting the generality of this section, the assumptions that may be made under this section apply for the purposes of this section.

S. 118 inserted by No. 99/2003 s. 4.



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