The Transfer of Functions (Insurance) Order 1997

Designation for purposes of European Communities Act 1972

6.  For the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), the Treasury is hereby designated (in place of the Secretary of State) in relation to—

(a) compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers;

(b) transfers of insurance contracts other than contracts of life insurance from one insurance undertaking to another;

(c) authorisation of the carrying on of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct;

(d) matters relating to the specification of insurers who may effect insurance required under or by virtue of any enactment; and

(e) matters relating to the transfer of contracts of life assurance from one insurance undertaking to another;

and to anything supplemental or incidental to those matters.

(1)

1972 c. 68.