17 Annual accounts and balance sheets.U.K.
(1)Every insurance company to which this Part of this Act applies shall, with respect to each financial year of the company, prepare a revenue account for the year, a balance sheet as at the end of the year and a profit and loss account for the year or, in the case of a company not trading for profit, an income and expenditure account for the year.
(2)The contents of the documents required by subsection (1) above to be prepared shall be such as may be prescribed, but regulations may provide for enabling information required to be given by such documents to be given instead in a note thereon or statement or report annexed thereto or may require there to be given in such a note, statement or report such information in addition to that given in the documents as may be prescribed.
(3)Regulation may, as respects such matters stated in such documents as aforesaid or in statements or reports annexed thereto as may be prescribed, require there to be given by such persons as may be prescribed and to be annexed to the documents certificates of such matters as may be prescribed.
(4)If a form is prescribed—
(a)for any such document as aforesaid or,
(b)as that in which information authorised or required to be given in a statement or report annexed to any such document is to be given or,
(c)for a certificate to be so annexed,
the document shall be prepared, the information shall be given or, as the case may be, the certificate shall be framed, in that form.