Registered office of an LLP.

Start with the LLP agreement, because the procedure comes from there rather than from the Act. Where the agreement is silent, the consent of all partners is required.

Then file Form 15 with the Registrar within thirty days. Where the move is to another state, two further things must happen before the filing: the consent of every secured creditor, and publication of a general notice in a daily English newspaper and one in the principal local language of the district, at least twenty-one days ahead.

On the filing of Form 15, and not before. This is different from most other LLP changes, where the deed takes effect between the partners and the filing merely records it.

The practical consequence matters: until Form 15 is filed, the old address remains the registered office for every purpose, including service of documents. A notice delivered to premises the LLP vacated months ago is validly served if the record still shows that address.

Only where the agreement itself names the registered office address. A great many do.

Where it does, moving the office amends the agreement, which means a supplementary deed, stamp duty under the Goa Stamp Act and a Form 3 within thirty days — on its own clock, separate from Form 15. Where the agreement simply refers to "the registered office" without stating an address, Form 15 alone is enough.

Three things, in this order:

1. Compliance with the LLP agreement's procedure, or the consent of all partners where it is silent
2. The consent of every secured creditor of the LLP
3. A general notice published at least 21 days before the filing, in a daily newspaper in English and in a daily newspaper in the principal local language of the district where the registered office is situated

Then Form 15 is filed with the Registrars concerned. There is no Regional Director application, which makes it shorter than the company equivalent — but the twenty-one day notice and the lender consents are hard requirements that cannot be compressed.

Any lender holding security over the LLP's assets. In practice that means the bank behind any term loan or cash credit facility, vehicle finance, equipment finance and anyone in whose favour a charge has been registered.

The list is built from the charge records and from the LLP's own facility documents, because the two do not always agree. Consents are requested early — lenders route them through credit teams and rarely turn them around quickly.

Yes, and it is very common. There is no requirement for commercial premises.

What is required is the same everywhere: a no-objection certificate from the owner, a recent utility bill, the lease or licence document where the LLP is not the owner, the name and address displayed outside, and an address at which communications can genuinely be received. A house that is shut for months of the year meets the first three and fails the last.

A per-day penalty on the LLP and on every partner, running for as long as the default continues and subject to a prescribed maximum for each.

Separately, failing to display the required particulars — the name outside the office, and the name, registered office address, registration number and limited liability statement on invoices and official correspondence — carries its own penalty. Both are inexpensive to fix and awkward to explain if they are found unfixed.

Three material differences. An LLP's procedure comes from its agreement rather than from a statutory table. There is no distinction between moving within a city and moving to another town in the same state — a company needs a special resolution for the latter and an LLP does not. And an interstate move needs no Regional Director application.

What an LLP has instead is the twenty-one day newspaper notice and the secured creditor consents. Within a state the LLP route is genuinely simpler; across states it is shorter but front-loaded with waiting.

The registered office has not changed, in law. Whatever was served at the old address was validly served, and additional fee has been accruing per day of delay since the thirty days expired.

The fix is to file now, with the additional fee, and to check what came to the old address in the meantime. Where the LLP has also crossed a state line without the notice and consents, the sequence has to be completed properly before Form 15 can go in — which is another reason not to leave it.

One to two weeks for a move within Goa, most of which is assembling the address proof and collecting partner signatures. Add a few days where a supplementary agreement and Form 3 are also needed.

Five to seven weeks for an interstate move, driven almost entirely by the twenty-one day newspaper notice and by how quickly secured lenders return their consents. The lender consents are started on day one for exactly that reason.