The supplementary deed decides this filing. Every field on Form 3 follows from what that one document says and from the date it carries. A Pune LLP that changes its profit sharing ratio, its capital contribution or its partner list gets thirty days from the effective date to tell the Registrar. That effective date is whatever the deed puts on its own face. Get it wrong and you are either filing against a change that has not happened, or filing late at ₹100 a day. Draft the deed first, stamp it, then open the form.
Does this apply to your LLP, and from which date?
It applies the moment a term of the LLP agreement changes. Profit sharing, capital contribution, the scope of business, partner duties, the LLP name and the financial year all sit inside the agreement, so each of them travels through Form 3. Where a partner joins, resigns or is removed, Form 4 goes up alongside Form 3 and not after it.
The clock starts on the effective date written into the supplementary deed. It does not start on the day the last partner signed, and it does not start on the day the stamp was paid. A Kothrud design consultancy that agreed a new profit split on 4 April should date the deed 4 April and file by 4 May. Two competing dates in one deed is the commonest reason a Pune LLP believes it is on time and is not.
What has to come from your side, and how early?
Nothing exotic, but all of it in one go. Missing pieces turn a three day job into a three week one.
- The current LLP agreement and every supplementary deed already executed, in date order.
- The LLPIN and the master data as it stands today on the MCA portal.
- Written consent of every partner to the change, with one agreed effective date.
- Capital contribution before and after, split between what comes in as cash and what comes in as property.
- Active digital signatures for the two designated partners who will sign.
- DIN or DPIN and the Form 4 particulars, where a partner is joining or leaving.
That contribution split is not a formality in this state. Stamp duty on a partnership instrument is Article 47 of Schedule I to the Maharashtra Stamp Act, which covers an instrument of any partnership inclusive of Limited Liability Partnership and Joint Venture. The stamp duty on a Maharashtra partnership or LLP deed depends on the capital contribution and on whether that contribution comes in as cash or as property, and we compute it before execution. Payment then runs through GRAS, the state's electronic receipt system.
Which filing is due, and how many days do you get?
Thirty days from the effective date, for Form 3, on the MCA portal. Where partners change, Form 4 carries the same thirty days and both forms move together. The deed has to be stamped and executed before either form is opened, because the stamped copy is the attachment.
That window is shorter than it reads. Partners sign from different cities, one digital signature is always expired, and a stamped deed cannot be quietly corrected once it has been executed. Twenty of those thirty days belong to drafting, agreement and stamping. Ten belong to the filing itself.
What does a late Form 3 actually cost?
₹100 for every day past the deadline, with no ceiling in sight. It runs from the thirty first day and keeps running until the form is filed, so the number on the day you finally act is the number you pay.
| Days past the due date | Additional fee | What that looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 15 days | ₹1,500 | About the cost of the filing work itself |
| 30 days | ₹3,000 | One missed month, doubled |
| 90 days | ₹9,000 | A quarter of drift, six times the fee |
| 180 days | ₹18,000 | Still cheaper than never filing at all |
Money is the smaller half of it. An unfiled amendment leaves the MCA record showing a profit split, a contribution figure or a partner list that your books no longer match. That gap surfaces in a lender's due diligence, in a tender bid, in an income tax scrutiny, and in the one argument between partners that ends up in front of somebody else.
From partner signature to SRN, step by step
- We read the existing agreement and every earlier supplementary deed, then confirm whether your change needs Form 3 alone or Form 3 with Form 4.
- We draft the supplementary deed, fix a single effective date, and compute the Maharashtra stamp duty on the contribution as it will actually stand.
- You pay the duty through GRAS, the deed is executed on the stamped instrument, and the partners sign.
- We prepare Form 3, attach the executed deed and the consent record, and collect the designated partners' digital signatures.
- We file with the Registrar of Companies on the MCA portal, take the SRN, and follow the form until it is taken on record.
- We send back the closed set: stamped deed, filed form, SRN and the acknowledgment for your minute book.
Which Pune LLPs are amending their agreement right now?
- A design consultancy in Kothrud where two of four partners are cutting back their hours, so the profit sharing ratio has to follow the work.
- A second generation joining a family manufacturing business in Pimpri, which means fresh contribution figures and a fresh profit share for everybody.
- An LLP that quietly added a second line of business and whose agreement still describes only the first.
- Two partners who settled a buy out over coffee in Baner months ago and never put an effective date on paper.
- An LLP preparing for a bank facility, where the lender has asked why the MCA record and the balance sheet disagree.
After you file, where does Form 3 actually sit?
Form 3 goes to the Registrar of Companies through the MCA portal. For an LLP whose registered office sits in Pune district, that Registrar is ROC Pune, and Kothrud, Pimpri or Hinjawadi makes no difference to the answer. ROC Pune is the registrar for Pune and the districts around it. The restructuring of February 2026 left that office alone, so nothing moved for a Pune LLP. We confirm the registrar for your specific address before filing. Jurisdiction follows the registered address, not our office and not yours.
Pune sits under the Regional Director, Western Region Directorate II, headquartered at Navi Mumbai, which since 16 February 2026 covers the Maharashtra districts outside the metro. A fought over partner change becomes a tribunal matter. The NCLT Mumbai Bench's published jurisdiction is State of Maharashtra, State of Goa, there is no NCLT bench at Pune, and a Pune LLP is heard there rather than in this city. None of this needs a visit, and if you want the statutory background before the local detail, read how LLP Agreement Amendment works across India.
Why LegalX India in Pune
This is a filing we close most weeks for Pune LLPs, at ₹1,499, in 7 to 10 days once the partners have settled the change. Our team sits at Yerwada. The same CA and CS people draft the deed, compute the duty, run the GRAS payment and file the form, so nothing is handed between three desks. Over 15,000 businesses have used LegalX India. What Pune clients come back for is smaller than that: somebody who reads the old deed before writing the new one.