Regulation 33 — Destruction of documents

(1) Subject to the prior approval of the Registrar of LLP, the LLP records kept in a LLP Registration Office in physical form under the Act may be destroyed, after the expiration of ten years from the date of filing of said record in case of LLP in existence and five years from the date of dissolution in case of dissolved LLP, if the same are not of sufficient public value to justify their further preservation, or have not been ordered by the Commission or any Court or any other competent authority to be preserved for a longer period, or are not likely to be needed in connection with any pending proceedings, before any Court or authority, of which the LLP Registration Office has notice:

Provided that the physical documents and record filed at the time of incorporation of a LLP shall be preserved in the physical form permanently:

Provided further that before destroying any physical documents and record, it shall be ensured that each and every document is duly preserved in the electronic form permanently.

(2) Save as provided in sub-regulation (1), the physical record relevant to any legal proceeding, inquiry or investigation which has been initiated in respect of any LLP under any law for the time being in force, shall not be destroyed till the said proceeding attain finality or inquiry or investigation has been closed by the respective authority.

(3) The documents filed by a LLP through e-service shall be preserved permanently.