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Insurance
PART I Preliminary
1
Short title
2
Interpretation
3
Application
4
Supervisor of Insurance
5
Supervisor may act as arbitrator
6
Registers to be maintained by Supervisor
PART II Regulation of Insurance Companies
Registration
Deposits by Insurance Companies
Statutory Funds
Administrative and Accounting Requirements for Insurance Companies
Investigations by the Supervisor
Judicial Management and Winding-Up
PART III Associations of Underwriters
71
Associations of underwriters to be registered
72
Applications for registration by associations of underwriters
73
Conditions for registration
74
Documents and information relating to insurance business to be furnished to the Supervisor
75
Grounds for cancellation of registration
76
Implementation of proposal to refuse to register or to cancel registration
77
Registered association may be prohibited from writing new business
78
Policies issued before rejection of application for or cancellation of registration
79
Deposits by associations of under writers
PART IV Registration of Insurance Intermediaries
80
Registration of insurance intermediaries
81
Application for registration
82
General restrictions regarding registration
82A
Registration of brokers
83
Conditions for registration
84
Certificate of registration
85
Grounds for cancellation of registration subject to right of appeal
86
Implementation of proposal to refuse to register or to cancel registration
87
Summary cancellation of registration
88
Information to be supplied to Supervisor
89
Prohibition of certificate of registration
Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Insurance Intermediaries
90
Agency
91
Fraudulent representation
92
Liability for unlawful contracts
93
Advertisement
94
Failure to pay over premiums received on behalf of insurer, an offence
95
Compensation to unauthorised person for placing or negotiating insurance, an offence
96
Grant of rebates prohibited
97
Bona fide salaried employees
98
Returns from insurers
99
Keeping of records and making of deposits by registered brokers
PART V Long-Term Insurance Business
Issue of Policies
Group Life Insurance
Designation of Beneficiaries
Protection of Policies
Paid-Up Policies, Surrender Values and Non-Forfeiture
Payment of Policy Moneys
Provisions Relating to Industrial Life Insurance Business
Provisions Relating to Variable Insurance Business
Mutualisation
PART VI General Insurance
Conditions
Motor Vehicle Insurance
PART VII Miscellaneous
158
Registers to be kept
159
Registration of policies
160
Insurance policy documents to be issued expeditiously
161
Lost policy
162
Effect of suicide or capital punishment on policy
163
Condition as to war risk void
164
Offences by company not to invalidate policies
165
Jurisdiction of local courts
166
Payment of moneys in local currency
166A
Currency in which major medical policies may be paid
167
Power to pay money into court
168
Approval required for notice offering shares for subscription
169
Publication of authorised subscribed and paid-up capital
170
Voting by post
171
Inspection of documents
172
Documents to be received in evidence
173
Authority to sign documents
174
Printing of documents
175
Service of notices
176
Power to collect statistics
177
Decisions, etc. of Supervisor subject to review by Minister
178
Gazetting of registration, etc.
179
Restriction on use of insurance terms
180
Extension of time limits
181
Annual Report
182
Regulations
183
Exemptions
183A
Tax concessions
184
Offences
185
Penalties
186
Non-application of certain provisions of Companies Act
187
Married persons