Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

55 Protection of life policies (friendly societies other than collecting societies). E+W+S

[F1 (1) This section applies to -

(a) policies of assurance upon human life, in respect of which there are separate premiums, effected before the 1st December 2001 with a friendly society which was not a collecting society, and

(b) policies of assurance upon human life effected on or after the 1st December 2001 with a friendly society.]

[F2 (1A) In subsection (1)(a), “collecting society” means a friendly society which at the time when the policy in question was effected, carried on industrial assurance business within the meaning of section 1 of the Industrial Assurance Act 1923.]

(2) Where a policy to which this section applies has been forfeited, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, by reason of non-payment of a relevant premium or premiums (as defined in the last preceding section), if the owner of the policy or any other person on his behalf at any time before the expiration of six months from the wdate of the ending of the period of relevant service in question (or, if later, the expiration of three months from the commencement of this Act) duly makes an application to the society for reinstatement of the policy, and it appears on such an application that there was at the time when the forfeiture took place the like inability to pay as is mentioned in subsection (4) of the last preceding section, the society shall grant the application:

Provided that, if at the time when the forfeiture took place the society was entitled to forfeit the policy by reason of non-payment of any premium not being a relevant premium as well as by reason of non-payment of the relevant premium or premiums, the society shall not be under obligation to reinstate the policy unless the premium or premiums other than relevant premiums are paid within twenty-eight days from the time when the granting of the application is notified.

(3) Subsection (9) of the last preceding section shall apply to a refusal of an application under this section as it applies to a refusal of an application under subsection (5) of that section.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 55(1) substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3647, art. 5, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 3(1) (with art. 6)

F2 S. 55(1A) inserted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3647, art. 5, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 3(2) (with art. 6)