Chapter I · Purpose, effects and defects of registration

Article 8 Individual limited liability establishments

Artigo 8.º · Estabelecimentos individuais de responsabilidade limitada

Código do Registo Comercial · Decree-Law No. 403/86 · consolidated text checked 26 October 2026

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The following facts relating to individual limited liability establishments are subject to registration:

Estão sujeitos a registo os seguintes factos relativos a estabelecimentos individuais de responsabilidade limitada:

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a) The creation of the establishment;

a) A constituição do estabelecimento;

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b) The increase and reduction of the capital of the establishment;

b) O aumento e redução do capital do estabelecimento;

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c) The transfer of the establishment by act inter vivos and its lease;

c) A transmissão do estabelecimento por acto entre vivos e a sua locação;

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d) The creation by act inter vivos of a usufruct or a pledge over the establishment;

d) A constituição por acto entre vivos de usufruto e de penhor sobre o estabelecimento;

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e) The annual accounts;

e) As contas anuais;

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f) Amendments to the instrument of constitution;

f) As alterações do acto constitutivo;

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g) The entry into liquidation and the closure of the liquidation of the establishment;

g) A entrada em liquidação e o encerramento da liquidação do estabelecimento;

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h) The appointment and termination of office, prior to the end of the liquidation, of the liquidator of the establishment, where the liquidator is not its owner.

h) A designação e cessação de funções, anterior ao termo da liquidação, do liquidatário do estabelecimento, quando não seja o respectivo titular.

What we checked in this article

Points (a) to (h) are retained, including the inter vivos limitation in points (c) and (d) and the condition in point (h) that the liquidator is not the owner.

Registering an act under Article 8?

We file registrations at the commercial registry for foreign-owned companies: incorporations, share transfers, manager changes, capital changes, branches, filing of accounts and closures. In English, fixed fees, with the registry fee shown separately.

Unofficial English translation prepared by BCA Portugal for reference. Only the Portuguese text published in the Diário da República has legal force. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the statute.

Applying the law

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