Insurance Companies Act 1982

41Limitation of premium income

(1)The Secretary of State may require a company to take all such steps as are requisite to secure that the aggregate of the premiums—

(a)to be received by the company in consideration of the undertaking by it during a specified period of liabilities in the course of carrying on general business or any specified part of such business ; or

(b)to be received by it in a specified period in consideration of the undertaking by the company during that period of liabilities in the course of carrying on long term business or any specified part of such business,

shall not exceed a specified amount.

(2)A requirement under this section may apply either to the aggregate premiums to be received as mentioned in subsection (1) above or to the aggregate of those premiums after deducting any premiums payable by the company for reinsuring the liabilities in consideration of which the first-mentioned premiums are receivable.