The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Variation of Threshold Conditions) Order 2001

[F1Swiss general insurance companiesU.K.

4.—(1) A Swiss general insurance company must, for the purposes of [F2section 55B(3) of the Act], satisfy the following additional conditions—

(a)the value of the assets of the business carried on by it in the United Kingdom must not fall below the amount of the liabilities of that business, that value and amount being determined in such manner as may be specified;

(b)such assets must be maintained in such places as may be specified and must be of such a nature as may be specified as being appropriate in relation to the currency in which the liabilities of the company are or may be required to be met; and

(c)when applying to the [F3PRA] for permission to carry on a regulated activity it must submit to the [F3PRA] a statement from the supervisory authorities in Switzerland—

(i)stating the classes of insurance business which the company is authorised to carry on in Switzerland,

(ii)specifying the risks covered there,

(iii)declaring that the company is constituted in Switzerland in a form permitted by Annex 3 of the Agreement signed on 10th October 1989 between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on direct insurance other than life assurance,

(iv)confirming that the company limits its business activities to insurance and to operations directly arising therefrom to the exclusion of all other commercial business, and

(v)declaring that the company has the required solvency margin or minimum guarantee fund.

(2) In this article, “specified” means specified in rules.

[F4(3) The additional conditions specified in this article are relevant to the discharge by the PRA of its functions under the Act in relation to the person concerned.]]

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