Correcting Errors and Typos in LLP Transactions

If you have filed something for your limited liability partnership and spotted a typing mistake afterwards, you fix it with a Notice of Error in Bizfile. It is a lodgement in its own right, not an edit, and it works only for genuine clerical slips.

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That last point is where most people go wrong. A Notice of Error is not an undo button. Section 74 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005 lets the Registrar rectify the register on receiving a notice of an error, but only if the Registrar is satisfied that the error is typographical or clerical in nature, or that an error in the filing itself was unintended and does not prejudice anyone.

If you filed the right information badly, that is a Notice of Error. If you filed the wrong information correctly, that is usually something else entirely.

What a Notice of Error can actually fix

The correctable items for an LLP are the ones where a human typed a value into a field and got a character wrong. In practice that covers:

• The LLP’s registered business activity, where the wrong SSIC code or description was selected
• The registered office address
• The date of appointment or withdrawal of a partner or a manager
• The particulars of a partner or a manager, such as a misspelt name or a transposed identification number

The unifying thread is that the underlying fact is not in dispute. The partner was appointed on 3 March 2026 and somebody keyed 3 May 2026. Nobody is arguing about when the appointment happened. The register simply does not reflect it.

Correctable versus not correctable

That last row deserves emphasis because it surprises people. Section 74(3) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005 says that in rectifying the register, the Registrar must not expunge any document from the register. The mistaken filing stays visible. The correction sits alongside it. Anyone who buys your LLP’s records later will see both.

Who can file it

The Act gives the right to lodge a notice of error to an officer of the LLP. Under section 2 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005, “officer” in relation to an LLP means a manager, a receiver and manager appointed under an instrument, or a liquidator in a voluntary winding up. For a trading LLP that means your manager.

In practice, filings are made in Bizfile by the LLP’s partners and managers, or by a registered corporate service provider acting for the LLP. If your LLP uses a corporate secretarial firm, the correction is normally theirs to lodge, and it should be, because they will also know whether the item is genuinely clerical.

Every LLP must have at least one manager who is a natural person, at least 18 years of age, of full legal capacity and ordinarily resident in Singapore. That is section 29 of the Act, and it matters here because a manager who is answerable for the LLP’s filings is the person the Registrar expects to correct them.

The steps, in order

1. Confirm the original transaction number. You need to identify the filing you are correcting, so pull it from your Bizfile transaction history before you start.
2. Log in to Bizfile as a Business User through Corppass. If you have never done this, our walkthrough on logging in to Bizfile as a business user covers the set-up.
3. Check which entity you are in. If you hold positions in several entities, switch profile to the LLP first. Filing a Notice of Error against the wrong entity creates a second error to correct.
4. Open the General Lodgement eService and select the Notice of Error option.
5. Identify the transaction, the field that is wrong, the value that was filed and the value it should have been.
6. Explain what happened. Keep it factual and short. “Appointment date of manager keyed as 03/05/2026; the resolution and consent to act are both dated 03/03/2026” is the shape of a good explanation.
7. Attach supporting evidence where the correct value is provable from a document, such as the consent to act, the partnership agreement variation or the identification document.
8. Submit and watch your Bizfile inbox.

The Registrar’s decision on whether to rectify is final under section 74(4) of the Act. There is no appeal from a refused Notice of Error, which is another reason to use the right route the first time.

What goes wrong in practice

People use a Notice of Error to hide a late filing. An LLP must lodge changes in its registered particulars within 14 days under section 34 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005. Failing to do so is an offence carrying a fine not exceeding $5,000, plus a further fine not exceeding $200 for each day the offence continues after conviction. Backdating a filing through a Notice of Error does not cure a late filing. It creates a false entry, and the original record is still on the register because it cannot be expunged.

People wait. There is no statutory deadline for filing a Notice of Error, which quietly encourages drift. The problem is that the register does not wait. Banks, landlords, grant assessors and counterparties pull the LLP’s information and act on what they see. An incorrect appointment date on a manager can unpick an authority chain in a financing document months later.

People correct the register but not their own records. The LLP’s internal partnership records, the manager’s register and the accounting system all need the same fix. The Registrar’s copy and yours should agree.

People treat the error as invisible. It is not. Section 74(3) keeps the original document on the register. If you have a filing that was substantively wrong rather than clerically wrong, the honest route is to file the correcting transaction and be able to explain the sequence, which is generally what a diligent counterparty wants to see anyway.

When a court application is the only route

Section 73 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005 lets the General Division of the High Court, on evidence adduced by the LLP, order the Registrar to rectify a register entry that is erroneous or defective. The court may also require a fresh document showing the rectification to be filed together with a copy of the order and of the application.

You end up there when the error is not clerical and not agreed. Someone was recorded as a partner who never consented. A withdrawal was filed by a person who had no authority to file it. Two parties disagree about when a partnership interest actually transferred. The Registrar will not resolve a dispute about facts, and section 74 does not empower him to.

Separately, section 75 allows the Registrar to rectify or update particulars on his own initiative, for example where there is a grammatical, typographical or similar mistake, or where entries conflict with other information held. You may therefore receive a correction you did not ask for. Read those notices rather than filing them. Our note on the ACRA alerts companies miss explains why unopened Bizfile correspondence is a recurring source of expensive surprises.

The annual declaration is a separate obligation

Correcting a transaction does not touch your LLP’s annual filing. Under section 30 of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005, every LLP must lodge an annual declaration by one of its managers stating whether the LLP appears able to pay its debts as they become due in the normal course of business. The first declaration is due not later than 15 months after registration, and afterwards once in every calendar year at intervals of no more than 15 months.

Missing it is an offence carrying a fine not exceeding $5,000, and it also feeds into the striking off grounds in the Fifth Schedule to the Act. A manager who declares solvency without reasonable grounds faces a separate offence. This is a declaration to make deliberately, not to click through.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a Notice of Error cost for an LLP?
Fees for ACRA lodgements are set out on the ACRA service and transaction fees page for LLPs. Check the current figure there before you file, and pay through Bizfile in the usual way.

Can I withdraw a filing I made by mistake?
No. Section 74(3) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005 stops the Registrar from expunging any document from the register. The best available outcome is a corrected entry sitting alongside the original, so the record shows both the mistake and the fix.

How long does ACRA take to decide?
There is no published statutory clock. Straightforward corrections supported by a clear document are usually processed quickly. Applications with a thin explanation and no evidence take longer or come back refused, and the Registrar’s decision under section 74 is final.

Is a wrong SSIC activity code a clerical error?
Usually yes, if you selected the wrong code from the list and the LLP’s actual activity has not changed. If your activity genuinely changed, that is a change in registered particulars to be filed within 14 days under section 34, not a correction.

Does correcting an error remove a late lodgement penalty?
No. A penalty attaches to the original late filing. A Notice of Error corrects content, not timing, and you should not present it as if it corrects timing.

Who signs off on the correction?
The Act points to an officer of the LLP, which for a trading LLP means a manager. Where a corporate service provider files on your behalf, the manager should still read and approve the explanation before it is submitted.

Getting the filing right the first time

Almost every Notice of Error we see traces back to the same thing: someone keying a date or a name from memory rather than from the signed document in front of them. The fix is procedural, not technical. File from the resolution, not from the email that mentioned the resolution.

Raffles Corporate Services maintains registers and files changes for Singapore LLPs and companies, keeps the 14-day clock in view, and handles Notices of Error when something does slip through. If you have an entry on the register you are not comfortable with, it is worth a look before a counterparty finds it.

You can reach us through Raffles Corporate Services, or read more on Singapore corporate secretarial practice at Singapore Secretary Services.

— The Editorial Team, Raffles Corporate Services