PART 1GENERAL

Interpretation2.

(1)

In these Regulations—

“the 2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006 M1;

“the 2008 Regulations” means the Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 M2;

“appropriate audit authority” means—

(a)

the Secretary of State, or

(b)

if the Secretary of State has delegated functions under section 1252 of the Companies Act 2006 (delegation of the Secretary of State's functions) to a body whose functions include receiving notice that an auditor of a syndicate or of the aggregate accounts has ceased to hold office, that body;

“the Authority” means the F1Prudential Regulation Authority;

“the Council of Lloyd's” means the Council constituted by section 3 of Lloyd's Act 1982 (the Council);

“financial year” means the period of 12 months beginning on 1st January;

“Lloyd's byelaws” means the byelaws made under Lloyd's Acts 1871 to 1982 M3;

“managing agent” means a person who is permitted by the Council of Lloyd's, in the conduct of his business as an underwriting agent, to perform, for a member of Lloyd's, one or more of the following functions—

(a)

underwriting contracts of insurance at Lloyd's;

(b)

reinsuring such contracts in whole or in part;

(c)

paying claims on such contracts;

“syndicate” means one or more persons, to whom a syndicate number has been assigned by or under the authority of the Council of Lloyd's, carrying out or effecting contracts of insurance written at Lloyd's;

“syndicate's annual accounts” means the accounts prepared in accordance with regulation 5(2)(a) of these Regulations.

(2)

In these Regulations any reference to a person being “in default” in relation to a requirement of these Regulations means a person who authorises or permits, participates in, or fails to take all reasonable steps to prevent, a contravention of that requirement.

(3)

For the purposes of these Regulations an underwriting year of account is closed—

(a)

at the time when a contract of reinsurance to close that year of account, which complies with the requirements in the Lloyd's byelaws, takes effect; or

(b)

in the case of a syndicate which consists of a single corporate member, at the time when an amount representing the provision for all known and unknown liabilities attributable to the closing year of account, is included in the underwriting account for the following underwriting year.

(4)

Except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, words and expressions used in the 2006 Act have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in that Act.