- Y Diweddaraf sydd Ar Gael (Diwygiedig)
- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (01/07/1994)
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(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section and to Schedule 3 to this Act, the Board may from time to time, for the purpose of financing general business expenditure, impose a levy on authorised insurance companies carrying on general business in the United Kingdom (hereafter in this Act referred to as a “general business levy”).
(2)Subject to the following provisions of this section and to Schedule 3 to this Act, the Board may from time to time, for the purpose of financing long term business expenditure, impose a levy on authorised insurance companies carrying on long term business in the United Kingdom (hereafter in this Act referred to as a “long term business levy”).
[F1(2A)The Board may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, waive (in whole or in part) any levy imposed under subsection (1) or (2) above on an EC company if it considers it appropriate to do so, having regard to the extent to which provision is made for the indemnification of qualifying policyholders—
(a)under the law of the member State in which the head office of the EC company is situated; or
(b)by virtue of any arrangements which are in force in that State.
(2B)In subsection (2A) above—
’EC company’ has the same meaning as in the Insurance Companies Act 1982;
’qualifying policyholder’ means a policyholder who is eligible for the assistance or protection of the Board in accordance with any provision of sections 6 to 16 above.]
(3)The amount each insurance company may be required to pay under general business levies imposed in any financial year shall be calculated by reference to the net premium income of the company for the year ending last before the beginning of that financial year in respect of general policies which were United Kingdom policies at the relevant time; and any such income is hereafter in this Act referred to, in relation to any company, as income of the company for the year in question which is income liable to the general business levy.
(4)The amount each insurance company may be required to pay under long term business levies imposed in any financial year shall be calculated by reference to the net premium income of the company for the year ending last before the beginning of that financial year in respect of long term policies effected after 31st December 1974 which were United Kingdom policies at the relevant time; and any such income is hereafter in this Act referred to, in relation to any company, as income of the company for the year in question which is income liable to the long term business levy.
(5)In subsections (3) and (4) above, the net premium income of a company for any year in respect of policies of any description which were United Kingdom policies at the relevant time means the gross amounts recorded in the company’s accounts during that year as paid or due to the company by way of premiums under policies of that description which were United Kingdom policies at the time when the amounts in question were so recorded, less any amounts deductible for that year in respect of policies of that description in accordance with subsection (6) or (7) below.
(6)In calculating a company’s net premium income for any year in respect of policies of any description, any rebates or refunds recorded in the company’s accounts during that year as allowed or given in respect of any amounts so recorded during that or any previous year as paid or due to the company by way of premiums under policies of that description which were United Kingdom policies at the time when the rebates or refunds were so recorded shall be deductible.
(7)In calculating a company’s net premium income for any year in respect of general policies, any sums recorded in the company’s accounts during that year as paid by or due from the company by way of premiums for reinsuring its liabilities towards policyholders under general policies which were United Kingdom policies at the time when the sums in question were so recorded shall be deductible.
(8)The proceeds of general business levies may be applied by the Board only on general business expenditure, and the proceeds of long term business levies may be applied by the Board only on long term business expenditure.
(9)Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with respect to the imposition and enforcement of general business levies and long term business levies and the other matters there mentioned.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 21(2A)(2B) inserted (1.7.1994) by S.I. 1994/1696, reg. 68, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 5(2) (with reg. 68(3))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Power to amend s. 21 conferred by Insurance Companies Act 1982 (c. 50, SIF 67), s. 67(4)
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