17.—(1) Section 154 (duty to give information as to insurance or security where claim made) is amended as follows.
(2) In the heading, omit “or security”.
(3) In subsection (1)—
(a)in paragraph (a)—
(i)in sub-paragraph (i), omit “or had in force a security having effect for those purposes”; and
(ii)for sub-paragraph (ii) and the “and” at the end of that sub-paragraph, substitute—
“(ii)he would have been so insured if the insurer had not avoided or cancelled the policy, and”; and
(b)in paragraph (b)—
(i)in the words before sub-paragraph (i), omit “, or had or would have had in force such a security”; and
(ii)in sub-paragraph (i)—
(aa)omit “or security” in the first and second places those words occur; and
(bb)omit “or security, as the case may be,”.