Actuarial investigations

6.—(1) Section 42 of that Act (actuarial investigations) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (4) (which requires five copies of any abstract made in pursuance of a requirement under the section to be deposited by the company concerned with the Secretary of State and that one of the copies be signed) —

(a)for “Five”there shall be substituted “The required”, and

(b)the words from “and one of those copies”to the end are hereby repealed.

(3) After that subsection there shall be inserted —

(5) In subsection (4) above, the reference to the required copies, in relation to any abstract, is to —

(a)three copies of the abstract, or

(b)one printed copy of the abstract and one copy of it in a form approved for the purposes of this subsection by the Secretary of State.

(6) Where copies of any abstract are required under subsection (4) above to be deposited with the Secretary of State, one of the copies or, as the case may be, the printed copy shall be signed by the person required to sign copies of abstracts made under section 18 above which are deposited under section 22 above.