Mauritius Notice of Change in Registered Office of a Limited Liability Partnership (Form S42/F LLP4)

Candidate selection

GOV-4946 ("GovSchema Standard Research"). The GOV-4939 cycle (the most recent prior CBRD Mauritius cycle) left two confirmed-live, disclosed backlog items open: change-of-registered-office (LLP4) and removal-from-register (LLP8), alongside a further unscreened batch (LLP7 distinct from the already-authored LP7, change-of-general- partner, change-of-manager/partner (LLP6), name-reservation (LP1, LLP3), annual return (LP3), and a Foundation change-of-name form) and the two dead-linked forms (consent-of-manager, LP4 removal). LLP4 was picked as the strongest banked candidate — confirmed live and byte-verifiable since first disclosed on GOV-4911, the direct Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2016 analogue of the two-box, no-"Presented By" LP7 sibling already authored (GOV-4932), giving a useful cross-check on whether that structural pattern carries over across Acts.

Reaching the live source

This cycle re-fetched CBRD's own downloadable-forms listing fresh (https://companies.govmu.org/cbrd/downloadable-forms/, HTTP 200, 185,260 bytes) via a plain unauthenticated curl and grepped its raw HTML for the exact LLP4 filename rather than reusing a banked guess, confirming:

https://companies.govmu.org/cbrd/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/NOTICE-OF-CHANGE-IN-REGISTERED-OFFICE-LLP4.pdf

• Plain unauthenticated curl, no session/cookie state, no CAPTCHA/WAF challenge — same unauthenticated hosting pattern as every other CBRD form this registry has already modelled.
• HTTP 200, 47,286 bytes retrieved.
• sha256 of the retrieved bytes: cc5fdb3754343231447f3375942ca2f17b4d75fcac23a7b25b31bab20d1abda7.
• 1 page, confirmed via pdfjs-dist's numPages.
• getAnnotations() returned 0 form-field annotations — not an interactive AcroForm, same as every sibling CBRD schema.
• getTextContent() returned 119 positioned text items — a genuine text layer, with every printed label and blank-line dot-leader run recovered cleanly.

Authority attribution

The form's own header ("THE LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS ACT 2016", "(Section 42)", form code "S42-F LLP 4") and its hosting directly on the Corporate and Business Registration Department's own domain (companies.govmu.org/cbrd/, the same authority already attributed on every other CBRD schema in this registry) attribute authority to the Corporate and Business Registration Department (abbreviation CBRD) directly.

Extraction method

A positional text-layer dump (each item's string plus x/y transform coordinates) reconstructed the form's row structure. Because this form's boxed fields are not distinguishable from ruled free-text lines by text alone, a supplementary canvas render (node-canvas, 2.5x scale) was produced with a text-baseline overlay: a horizontal red line was drawn across the full page width at every distinct text y-coordinate, labelled with that y-value, directly on top of the rendered page graphics (box borders, ruled lines). This let every box's top/bottom edge be read off directly against the known text y-coordinates rather than estimated from two separate uncorrelated renders — a refinement over the plain box-confirmation renders used on prior CBRD cycles. The render itself dropped every glyph via a Helvetica path-resolution warning (the same node-canvas font-substitution gap documented in this registry's own gov-form-pdf-extraction practice note), so glyphs were never relied upon in the render; only vector box/line graphics plus the overlaid text-coordinate gridlines were used to confirm layout.

Document structure

Page 1 (single page):

• Header: "FOR OFFICE USE" (shaded label) over a "Document Folio" box (officer-only, not modelled) | "S42-F LLP 4" / "THE LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIPS ACT 2016" (printed form reference codes, not fillable).
• Title block: "NOTICE OF CHANGE IN REGISTERED OFFICE" / "(Section 42)" — static, not modelled.
• Existing-partnership identification block: "Name of Limited Liability Partnership" (single-ruled-line box spanning y=677 to y=580), followed by two small bordered boxes side by side at the y=580 gridline — "Category" (left) and "Registered No." (right). A genuine structural finding: this form prints only these two boxes, not the three-box pattern (adding "Date of Registration") used by the LLP5 change-of-name sibling within the same Act — instead matching the two-box pattern already established by the LP7 (Limited Partnerships Act) sibling. Confirmed both by the clean text-layer extraction (no "Date of Registration" string anywhere in the 119 extracted items) and the annotated canvas render (only two small boxes visible at the y=580 gridline, both textually confirmed by the overlaid label).
• New registered office block: "Address of the New Registered Office" — a second single-ruled-line box (y=533 to roughly y=460), the same single-line convention as the name-entry box above it, not a multi-line address block.
• Effective-date block: the running two-line sentence "The change in the registered office of the Limited Liability Partnership takes effect on " (y=433/y=412), paired with a small bordered box confirmed via the annotated render to sit in the same right-hand column as the Registered No. box above it, vertically overlapping both text lines of the sentence. A further genuine finding: a footnote below the declaration block ("Note: The change shall take effect on the date the register being amended to that effect (Section 42 (3)).", y=232) explains that the asterisked date is subject to the Department's own register-amendment date — modelled as a required effectiveDate field with this caveat disclosed in its own description, since the form provides no other mechanism to state an intended date and no prior CBRD sibling schema in this registry has needed to model an analogous boxed-value-inside-a-sentence field.
• Declaration block: "Signature of partner(s): ______" (y=363), "Name of partner(s): ______" (y=335), "Date: ______" (y=307) — the same "partner(s)" (not "general partner(s)") terminology already established by the LLP5 sibling, confirming the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2016 does not distinguish a general-partner role. Modelled in the registry's established declarationDate, signatureOfPartner, nameOfPartner field order (matching the LLP5 and LP5 siblings' own field ordering), not the page's own top-to- bottom print order.
• A "Presented By" block is present (y=201 "Presented by:" through y=99 "Reference:", plus a "(For office use)" officer column at Officer's Name/Sig/Date, and a "Sheet ___ of ___ (for office use)" footer with two small unlabeled checkboxes, confirmed via the annotated render to be officer-only administrative marks, same as every other CBRD schema with this block) — unlike the LP7 sibling, which prints no Presented By block at all. This form therefore combines the two-box identification pattern (like LP7) with a full Presented By block (like LLP5/LP5), a genuine cross-form structural combination not seen on any single prior CBRD schema in this registry.

Conformance

No requiredWhen gates are used — every field on this form is unconditionally required or unconditionally optional, unlike the either/or BRN/ID No. pattern on the Consent-family siblings, which this form does not print. An ephemeral, uncommitted Node script exercised:

• 2 valid scenarios: all 11 fields supplied; all required fields supplied with presentedByReference (the only optional field) omitted.
• 10 required-field-omission mutations (one per required field, each independently rejected as expected).
• 1 unknown-field-rejection mutation, rejected as expected.

Both node tools/validate.mjs and node tools/validate-ajv.mjs pass against the full registry with this schema included.

Scope and disclosed backlog

This schema does not model any of the other companion/notice forms on the same downloadable-forms listing:

• Removal-from-register (LLP8) remains disclosed, confirmed-live, open backlog — re-linked on this cycle's fresh listing re-fetch but not independently re-byte-verified.
• The GOV-4925-surfaced unscreened batch remains unscreened: an LLP7 "Registered Particulars" notice distinct from the already-authored LP7, change-of-general-partner, change-of-manager/partner (LLP6), name-reservation (LP1, LLP3), annual return (LP3), and a Foundation change-of-name form.
• Consent of Manager (LLP2 sibling form) and the Limited Partnerships Act 2011 removal-from-register (LP4) remain the two genuine dead links (HTTP 404) on the Department's own hosting first disclosed on the GOV-4911 cycle, not re-tested this cycle.

Full company incorporation itself remains out of scope (login-gated CBRIS portal, no static equivalent, per every prior CBRD schema's own disclosed scope).