30Minors admitted to the benefits of partnership
(1) A person who is a minor according to the law to which he is subject may not be a partner in a firm, but, with the consent of all the partners for the time being, he may be admitted to the benefits of partnership.
(2) Such minor has a right to such share of the property and of the profits of the firm as may be agreed upon, and he may have access to and inspect and copy any of the accounts of the firm.
(3) Such minor's share is liable for the acts of the firm, but the minor is not personally liable for any such act.
(4) Such minor may not sue the partners for an account or payment of his share of the property or profits of the firm, save when severing his connection with the firm, and in such case the amount of his share shall be determined by a valuation made as far as possible in accordance with the rules contained in section 48:
Provided that all the partners acting together or any partner entitled to dissolve the firm upon notice to other partners may elect in such suit to dissolve the firm, and thereupon the Court shall proceed with the suit as one for dissolution and for settling accounts between the partners, and the amount of the share of the minor shall be determined along with the shares of the partners.
(5) At any time within six months of his attaining majority, or of his obtaining knowledge that he had been admitted to the benefits of partnership, whichever date is later, such person may give public notice that he has elected to become or that he has elected not to become a partner in the firm, and such notice shall determine his position as regards the firm:
Provided that, if he fails to give such notice, he shall become a partner in the firm on the expiry of the said six months.
(6) Where any person has been admitted as a minor to the benefits of partnership in a firm, the burden of proving the fact that such person had no knowledge of such admission until a particular date after the expiry of six months of his attaining majority shall lie on the persons asserting that fact.
(7) Where such person becomes a partner,--
(a) his rights and liabilities as a minor continue up to the date on which he becomes a partner, but he also becomes personally liable to third parties for all acts of the firm done since he was admitted to the benefits of partnership, and
(b) his share in the property and profits of the firm shall be the share to which he was entitled as a minor.
(8) Where such person elects not to become a partner,--
(a) his rights and liabilities shall continue to be those of a minor under this section up to the date on which he gives public notice,
(b) his share shall not be liable for any acts of the firm done after the date of the notice, and
(c) he shall be entitled to sue the partners for his share of the property and profits in accordance with sub-section (4).
(9) Nothing in sub-sections (7) and (8) shall affect the provisions of section 28.
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- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Application of provisions of Act 9 of 1872
- 4 Definition of “partnership”, “partner”, “firm” and “firm name”
- 5 Partnership not created by status
- 6 Mode of determining existence of partnership
- 7 Partnership at will
- 8 Particular partnership
- 9 General duties of partners
- 10 Duty to indemnify for loss caused by fraud
- 11 Determination of rights and duties of partners by contract between the partners
- 12 The conduct of the business
- 13 Mutual rights and liabilities
- 14 The property of the firm
- 15 Application of the property of the firm
- 16 Personal profits earned by partners
- 17 Rights and duties of partners— after a change in the firm, after the expiry of the term of the firm, and where additional undertakings are carried ou
- 18 Partner to be agent of the firm
- 19 Implied authority of partner as agent of the firm
- 20 Extension and restriction of partner’s implied authority
- 21 Partner’s authority in an emergency
- 22 Mode of doing act to bind firm
- 23 Effect of admissions by a partner.
- 24 Effect of notice to acting partner
- 25 Liability of a partner for acts of the firm
- 26 Liability of the firm for wrongful acts of a partner
- 27 Liability of firm for misapplication by partners
- 28 Holding out
- 29 Rights of transferee of a partner ’s interest
- 30 Minors admitted to the benefits of partnership
- 31 Introduction of a partner
- 32 Retirement of a partner
- 33 Expulsion of a partner
- 34 Insolvency of a partner
- 35 Liability of estate of deceased partner
- 36 Rights of outgoing partner to carry on competing business
- 37 Right of outgoing partner in certain cases to share subsequent profits
- 38 Revocation of continuing guarantee by change in firm
- 39 Dissolution of a firm
- 40 Dissolution by agreement
- 41 Compulsory dissolution
- 42 Dissolution on the happening of certain contingencies
- 43 Dissolution by notice of partnership at will
- 44 Dissolution by the Court
- 45 Liability for acts of partners done after dissolution
- 46 Right of partners to have business wound up after dissolution
- 47 Continuing authority of partners for purposes of winding up
- 48 Mode of settlement of accounts between partners
- 49 Payment of firm debts and of separate debts
- 50 Personal profits earned after dissolution
- 51 Return of premium on premature dissolution
- 52 Rights where partnership contract is rescinded for fraud or misrepresentation
- 53 Right to restrain from use of firm name or firm property
- 54 Agreements in restraint of trade
- 55 Sale of goodwill after dissolution
- 56 Power to exempt from application of this Chapter
- 57 Appointment of Registrars
- 58 Application for registration
- 59 Registration
- 60 Recording of alterations in firm name and principal place of business
- 61 Noting of closing and opening of branches
- 62 Noting of changes in names and addresses of partners
- 63 Recording of changes in and dissolution of a firm
- 64 Rectification of mistakes
- 65 Amendment of Register by order of Court
- 66 Inspection of Register and filed documents
- 67 Grant of copies
- 68 Rules of evidence
- 69 Effect of non-registration
- 70 Penalty for furnishing false particulars
- 71 Power to make rules
- 72 Mode of giving public notice
- 73 [Repealed.]
- 74 Savings