Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Accountancy

Chapter

Accounting for Partnership

Question:

The Partnership Act was passed in which year?

Options:

1947

1950

1935

1932

Correct Answer:

1932

Explanation:

The correct answer is option 4- 1932.

When two or more persons join hands to set up a business and share its profits and losses, they are said to be in partnership. Section 4 of the Indian Partnership Act 1932 defines partnership as the ‘relation between persons who have agreed to share the profits of a business carried on by all or any of them acting for all’.

(1) The Act related to partnership is called the Indian Partnership Act, 1932.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
(3) It shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1932, except section 69 which shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1933.