The Friendly Societies (Insurance Business) Regulations 1994

PART VI CONDUCT OF LONG TERM BUSINESS

Application: Part VI

50.  This Part of these Regulations shall apply to a society which carries on long term business.

Linked long term contracts

51.—(1) Benefits payable under any contract to which this regulation applies shall not be determined, either wholly or partly, by reference to the value of, or the income from, or fluctuations in the value of, property of any description other than property of any of the descriptions specified in Part I of Schedule 6 which, where appropriate, comply with the provisions of paragraph 16 of that Schedule.

(2) Benefits payable under any contract to which this regulation applies shall not be determined, whether directly or indirectly, either wholly or partly by reference to fluctuations in any index of the value of property other than an index described in Part II of Schedule 6.

(3) This regulation applies to ordinary long term contracts entered into by societies, including any such contracts entered into before the coming into force of these Regulations, which—

(a) are contracts under which the benefits payable to the policyholder are wholly or partly to be determined by reference to the value of, or the income from, property of any description (whether or not specified in the contract) or by reference to fluctuations in, or in an index of, the value of property of any description (whether or not so specified); and

(b) are not contracts specified in paragraph (4) below as being contracts to which this regulation does not apply.

(4) The contracts referred to in paragraph 3(b) above to which this regulation does not apply are—

(a) contracts with any policyholder who is a person not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom;

(b) contracts to manage the investments of pension funds that are not combined with contracts of insurance covering either conservation of capital or payment of a minimum interest.

(5) Benefits payable under contracts referred to in paragraph (4)(b) above shall not be determined, either wholly or partly, by reference to the value of, or the income from, or fluctuations in the value of derivative contracts other than permitted derivative contracts as defined in paragraph 15 of Schedule 6.

(6) Any reference in this regulation to contracts of a similar description to any specified contract is a reference to contracts which correspond with that contract in both the following respects—

(a) the provisions defining the descriptions of property or indices by reference to which the benefits payable thereunder are to be determined are the same as in that contract; and

(b) the society or other person undertaking to pay the benefits provided for thereunder is the same as in that contract.

(7) In this regulation any reference to an ordinary long term contract is a reference to a contract the effecting of which constituted the carrying on of ordinary long term business.

Statutory notice: long term business

52.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation—

(a) a statutory notice shall have the contents and be in the form set out in Schedule 7; and

(b) the notice of cancellation to be annexed to a statutory notice shall have the contents and be in the form set out in Schedule 8.

(2) A statutory notice shall be printed on a single sheet of paper.

(3) The lettering of statutory notices and notices of cancellation shall be easily legible; and capital letters and figures shall be used in all the places in which they are shown in the form as set out in Schedule 7.

(4) In statutory notices the lettering of the words “IMPORTANT—YOU SHOULD READ THIS CAREFULLY” shall be set out in larger printing that all other lettering and in bolder printing than all other lettering except that of main headings and subheadings.

(5) In statutory notices and notices of cancellation the lettering of all main headings and subheadings shall be set out in bolder printing than all other lettering except (in the case of a statutory notice) that of the words “IMPORTANT—YOU SHOULD READ THIS CAREFULLY”.

(6) In statutory notices and notices of cancellation there shall be substituted for words contained within square brackets in the appropriate Schedule and for the square brackets containing them the information or wording which, as indicated by those words, should be inserted there.

(7) For the purposes of this regulation and Schedules 7 and 8—

“notice of cancellation” means a notice of the kind mentioned in section 67B(4)(b) of the 1992 Act;

“statutory notice” means a notice of the kind mentioned in section 67B(4) of the 1992 Act;

and in the paragraphs in the form set out in Schedule 7 headed “Your right to withdraw from the transaction” the description or title of the person to whom the notice of cancellation should be sent may be substituted for or included with the name of that person.