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As published
99 Insurance of lives of children under 10.
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, if—
(a) after this section comes into force a friendly society or registered branch or an industrial assurance company enters into a contract of insurance under which benefit in excess of £800 is payable on the death of any person; and
(b) that person dies under the age of 10,
the obligation of the society, branch or company as to payment of benefit is only to pay £800 (without prejudice to any person’s right to recover part of the premiums paid).
(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply where the benefit is payable to a person who has an interest in the life of the person on whose death it is payable.
(3) The Treasury may by order substitute some other sum for the sum for the time being specified in subsection (1) above.
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(5) For the purposes of this section—
(a) “industrial assurance company" means a person, other than a friendly society, who immediately before the repeal of the Industrial Assurance Act 1923, carried on industrial assurance business, and after that repeal is subject to an existing liability or a liability which may accrue under any policy effected in the course of that business;
(b) “industrial assurance business" means business which, immediately before the repeal of the Industrial Assurance Act 1923, fell within section 1(2) of that Act.
Your change, as a redline
99 Insurance of lives of children under 10.
(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, if—
(a) after this section comes into force a friendly society or registered branch or an industrial assurance company enters into a contract of insurance under which benefit in excess of £800 is payable on the death of any person; and
(b) that person dies under the age of 10,
the obligation of the society, branch or company as to payment of benefit is only to pay £800 (without prejudice to any person’s right to recover part of the premiums paid).
(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply where the benefit is payable to a person who has an interest in the life of the person on whose death it is payable.
(3) The Treasury may by order substitute some other sum for the sum for the time being specified in subsection (1) above.
(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5) For the purposes of this section—
(a) “industrial assurance company" means a person, other than a friendly society, who immediately before the repeal of the Industrial Assurance Act 1923, carried on industrial assurance business, and after that repeal is subject to an existing liability or a liability which may accrue under any policy effected in the course of that business;
(b) “industrial assurance business" means business which, immediately before the repeal of the Industrial Assurance Act 1923, fell within section 1(2) of that Act.
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