Incorporation
We review your LLP Agreement for filing-readiness and file Form 3 with the MCA within the 30-day window, so your agreement is on record and enforceable.
Form 3 has to reach the MCA within 30 days of signing your LLP Agreement, or of any later modification, certified by a CA, CS, or CMA. We review your agreement for filing-readiness and get it on record before the deadline.
Form 3 is the MCA filing that puts your executed LLP Agreement on official record with the Registrar. Filing it is what makes the MCA recognize the agreement your partners signed.
It applies both the first time you file after incorporation and any time you later modify the agreement. Either way, the 30-day clock starts from the date you signed.
Scope
We check your agreement against Form 3's requirements before submitting anything, since a mismatch is a common reason this filing gets sent back.
Form 3 needs certification by a practising CA, CS, or CMA. Unlike FiLLiP at incorporation, an advocate can't certify it.
You get the acknowledgment once the MCA has processed the filing.
Specifics
Executing your LLP Agreement and filing it with the MCA are two different steps. Signing the agreement makes it binding between partners; filing Form 3 is what puts it on official MCA record. A common mix-up is assuming FiLLiP (your incorporation filing) already covers this. It doesn't; Form 3 is a separate filing with its own deadline and its own certifier requirement.
Form 3 and Form 4 (the partner-change filing) are still two separate filings with two separate SRNs. Some sources online claim they were merged into a single form; that hasn't happened. File Form 3 alone for an agreement change with no partner change, Form 4 alone for a pure partner change, and both together when both happen at once.
The flat ₹100-per-day-uncapped late fee quoted for LLP filings is stale. Since the LLP (Amendment) Rules, 2022 (effective 1 April 2022), late filings are charged as a multiplier of the normal filing fee, scaled to how late the filing is and whether the LLP qualifies as a Small LLP, up to 360 days late. Beyond 360 days, the exact treatment for Form 3 isn't part of the sourced figures behind this page, so we don't quote it here; we'll confirm your exact exposure once we know how late a filing is.
Process
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Agreement review
We check your LLP Agreement (self-drafted, generated, or from our template) against Form 3's requirements.
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Clarifications
Yes. Drafting the agreement and filing it with the MCA are separate steps. We can review and file an agreement you've already drafted or generated, whether or not you used our LLP Agreement Generator.
You'll owe a late fee calculated as a multiplier of the normal filing fee rather than a flat daily rate, scaled to how late the filing is. We'll confirm your exact exposure once we know your dates; the sooner you file, the smaller it is.
Yes. If you modify your agreement after incorporation, that modification also needs a fresh Form 3 filing within 30 days of the change.
No. It needs a practising CA, CS, or CMA. An advocate, who can certify your original FiLLiP incorporation filing, cannot certify Form 3.
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