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(1)For the purposes of this Act—
“annual contribution income” means, in relation to a friendly society’s long term business, the income of the society in a financial year without any deduction for reinsurance cessions;
[F1“commitment" means, in relation to a friendly society to which section 37(2) applies, a commitment represented by insurance business of any class of Head A of Schedule 2 to this Act;]
“insurance business” means long term business and general business but [F2, except for the purposes of sections 87 and 88 above,] does not include the operations of a society whose benefits vary according to the resources available and which require each of its members to contribute on a flat-rate basis;
[F3“direct insurance business" means insurance business other than reinsurance business and “direct insurance" shall be construed accordingly;]
“long term business” means insurance business of any of the classes specified in head A of Schedule 2 to this Act; and
“general business” means insurance business of any of the classes specified in head B of that Schedule.
(2)For the purposes of any provision of Parts IV, V, VI and VIII of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a)references to insurance business include references to reinsurance business; and
(b)reinsurance business consisting of the effecting and carrying out of a contract of reinsurance of risks of any class shall be taken to constitute the carrying on of insurance business of that class;
and “reinsurance business” means the effecting and carrying out of contracts of reinsurance.
(3)For the purposes of this Act the effecting and carrying out of a contract whose principal object is within one class of insurance business, but which contains related and subsidiary provisions within another class or classes, shall be taken to constitute the carrying on of insurance business of the first-mentioned class, and no other, if subsection (4) or (5) below applies to the contract.
(4)This subsection applies to a contract whose principal object is within any class of long term business, but which contains subsidiary provisions within general business class 1 or 2, if the society concerned is authorised under section 32 above to carry on long term business class I.
(5)This subsection applies to a contract whose principal object is within one of the classes of general business but which contains subsidiary provisions within another of those classes.
[F4(6)In relation to a contract of insurance entered into by a person on any date with a friendly society to which section 37(3) above applies the effecting of which constitutes general business, or a contract of insurance entered into by a person on any date with a friendly society to which section 37(2) above applies the effecting of which constitutes long term business, references in this Act to the [F5member or EEA State] where the risk or commitment is situated shall be construed as follows—
(a)where that person is an individual, as references to the [F5member or EEA State] where he has his habitual place of residence on that date; and
(b)in any other case, as references to the [F5member or EEA State] where the establishment of that person to which the contract relates is situated on that date.
(7)In relation to any other contract of insurance with a friendly society, references in this Act to the member State where the risk is situated shall be construed as references to the member State where the person who has entered into the contract has his habitual place of residence.]
F6(8). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F7(9)In this Act “establishment", in relation to a friendly society to which section 37(2) or (3) above applies, means the registered office or an overseas branch of the society.
Any permanent presence of such a society in an EEA State other than the United Kingdom shall be regarded for those purposes as a single overseas branch, whether that presence consists of a single office which, or two or more offices each of which–
(a)is managed by the society’s own staff;
(b)is an agency of the society; or
(c)is managed by a person who is independent but has permanent authority to act for the society in the same way as an agency.]
Textual Amendments
F1Definition in s. 117(1) inserted (1.1.1994) by S.I. 1993/2519, reg. 7(1)
F2Words in definition in s. 117(1) inserted (17.8.2001 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/2617, arts. 2, 8(1), 13(1), Sch. 3 para. 114 (with art. 13(3), Sch. 5); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)
F3Definition in s. 117(1) added (1.9.1994) by S.I. 1994/1984, reg. 29(1)
F4S. 117(6)(7) substituted for s. 117(6) (1.1.1994) by S.I. 1993/2519, reg. 7(2)
F5Words in s. 117(6) substituted (1.9.1994) by S.I. 1994/1984, reg. 29(2)
F6S. 117(8) repealed (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, arts. 1, 205(1)
F7S. 117(9) inserted (1.9.1994) by S.I. 1994/1984, reg. 29(3)
Commencement Information
I1Ss. 116-119 wholly in force at 8.6.1992 see s. 126(2) and S.I. 1992/1325, art. 2(c).
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