Chapter I

Preliminary

1. Short title and commencement. (1) These rules may be called the Limited Liability Partnership Rules, 2009.

(2) (a) Rules 1 to 31, rules 34 to 37 and rule 41 of these rules shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 2009; 
(b) rules 32 and 33, and rules 38 to 40 of these rules shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.