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Statutory Instruments
FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS
Made
28th October 2002
Laid before Parliament
29th October 2002
Coming into force
20th November 2002
The Treasury, being a government department designatedM1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972M2 in relation to: (i) compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers; (ii) authorisation of the carrying on of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct; and (iii) anything supplemental or incidental to those matters; in exercise of the powers conferred on them by (a) that section and (b) sections 150(3) and 417(1)M3 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000M4, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Fourth Motor Insurance Directive) Regulations 2002 and come into force on 20th November 2002.
2.—(1) Rules made by the Authority under section 138 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“the 2000 Act”) (general rule-making power) may require a relevant authorised person to pay interest in specified circumstances in respect of claims made for compensation.
(2) In paragraph (1)—
(a)“relevant authorised person” means an authorised person with a Part IV permission (within the meaning of the 2000 Act)—
(i)to effect or carry out relevant contracts of insurance; or
(ii)to manage the underwriting capacity of a Lloyd’s syndicate as a managiang agent, the members of which effect or carry out relevant contracts of insurance underwritten at Lloyd’s;
where a “relevant contract of insurance” means a contract of insurance against damage arising out of or in connection with the use of motor vehicles on land (other than carrier’s liability);
(b)“specified” means specified in the rules.
(3) Rules made pursuant to paragraph (1) may not come into force before 19th Januray 2003.
3. In regulation 6 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Rights of Action) Regulations 2001 M5 (cases in which contravention of a rule is actionable at the suit of a person who is not a private person)—
(a)after paragraph (3)(c) insert—
“(d)the rule that has been contravened requires a relevant authorised person to respond to a claim for compensation within a specified time limit, or to pay interest in specified circumstances in respect of any such claim.”;
and
(b)for paragraph (4) substitute—
“(4) In this regulation—
(a)“relevant authorised person” means an authorised person with a Part IV permission—
(i)to effect or to carry out relevant contracts of insurance; or
(ii)to manage the underwriting capacity of a Lloyd’s syndicate as a managing agent, the members of which effect or carry out relevant contracts of insurance underwritten at Lloyd’s;
where a “relevant contract of insurance” means a contract of insurance against damage arising out of or in connection with the use of motor vehicles on land (other than carrier’s liability);
(b)“rule” has the meaning given by section 150(4) of the Act; and
(c)“specified” means specified in rules.”
Marginal Citations
Philip Woolas
Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
28th October 2002
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations ensure that effect is given to one part of Directive 2000/26/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 May 2000 on the approximation of laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles and amending Council Directives 73/239/EEC and 88/357/EEC (Fourth Motor Insurance Directive) (O. J. L 181 20/07/2000 p.65).
Regulation 2 makes clear that rules made by the Financial Services Authority under section 138 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 may require authorised insurers effecting or carrying out contracts of insurance covering certain types of motor vehicle liability (or Lloyd’s managing agents who manage syndicates who do such business) to make interest payments in certain specified circumstances.
Regulation 3 amends the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Rights of Action) Regulations 2001 so as to prescribe new cases in which the contravention of a rule will be actionable at the suit of a person who is not a “private person” as defined in regulation 3 of those Regulations. These new cases are contravention of a rule relating to the timely reply to certain claims for compensation and contravention of a rule requiring the payment, in specified circumstances, of interest in respect of such claims.
As these Regulations give effect, in part, to the Fourth Motor Insurance Directive a Transposition Note has been prepared setting out how the Government will transpose into UK law the main elements of this Directive. A hard copy of the Transposition Note is available from the following address: Banking and General Insurance Team, HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ (Telephone number: 020 7270 1389). Copies of the Note can also be obtained from HM Treasury’s website (www.hm-treasury.gov.uk).
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