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In force since 2001-12-01, as the publisher states.
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If any person wilfully makes, orders, or allows to be made any entry or erasure in, or omission from a collecting book or premium receipt book, with intent to falsify that book, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment. . . for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to both such imprisonment and fine.
Propose a changeWhere any notice is required by this Act to be served upon any member or other person, the notice shall be in writing, and either delivered or sent by post to him, or, in the case of a notice of default, so delivered or sent or left at his last known place of abode.
Propose a changeThe Commission may, subject to the approval of the Treasury, make regulations for prescribing anything which under this Act is to be prescribed and for imposing fees and generally for carrying this Act into effect and all regulations so made shall forthwith be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty days on which that House has sat next after the regulations are laid before it praying that the regulations may be annulled, they shall thenceforth be void but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.. . . Provided that the regulations so made shall not be deemed to be statutory rules to which section one of the Rules Publication Act 1893 applies.
Propose a change(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— The expression “collector” shall include every person, howsoever remunerated, who, by himself or by any deputy or substitute, makes house to house visits for the purpose of receiving premiums payable on policies of insurance on human life, or holds any interest in a collecting book and includes such a deputy or substitute as aforesaid: The expression “the Commission” means the Friendly Societies Commission; The expressions “friendly society” and “incorporated friendly society” have the same meanings as in the Friendly Societies Act 1992 The expression “the relevant authority” means— (a) in relation to a time before Schedule 19 to the Friendly Societies Act 1992 came into force, the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies; and (b) in relation to a time after the coming into force of that Schedule, the Commission. The expression “premium” includes contribution: The expression “collecting book” includes any book or document held by a collector in which payments of premiums are recorded: The expression “premium receipt book” includes any book or document held by the owner of a policy in which acknowledgments of receipts of premiums payable in respect of the policy are entered: The expression “owner” in relation to any policy means the person who is for the time being the person entitled to receive the sums payable under the policy on maturity, and in the case of an illegal policy or a policy not within the legal powers of the society or company which issued it means the person who would be so entitled were the policy a legal policy or a policy within such powers: The expression “rules” in relation to a company means the memorandum and articles of association of the company: The expression “the Companies Acts” means the Companies Acts 1908 to 1917, and any Acts repealed by the Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908. Other expressions have the same meaning as in the Friendly Societies Act 1896. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) The application of this Act to Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands shall be subject to the same modifications as are expressed in the Friendly Societies Act 1896 with respect to the application of that Act, and for the purposes of this Act the Isle of Man and the several Channel Islands shall be deemed to be counties.
Propose a change(1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Assurance Act 1923. (2) This Act shall extend to Great Britain, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. (3), (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Propose a changeSections 24, 25, 29. 1 The value of the policy is to be the difference between the present value of the reversion in the sum assured according to the contingency upon which it is payable, including any bonus added thereto, and the present value of the future net premiums. 2 The net premium is to be such premium as according to the assumed rate of interest and rate of mortality and the age of the person whose life is assured at his birthday next following the date of the policy is sufficient to provide for the risk incurred by the company or society in issuing the policy, exclusive of any addition thereto for office expenses and other charges: Provided that— (a) In the case of a policy other than a policy for the whole term of life issued before the person whose life is assured attained the age of ten years, the date of the policy may be assumed to be one year after the actual date, and, if it is so assumed, the term of the policy may be assumed to be one year less than the actual term: (b) In the case of a policy for the whole term of life issued before the person whose life is assured attained the age of ten years, no account shall be taken of any period for which the policy was in force before the anniversary of the date of the issue of the policy next preceding the date on which the age of eleven years was attained: (c) In the case of a substituted policy, the net premium shall be calculated with reference to such sum as, according to the practice of the society or company for the time being, would have been assured by the premiums payable if the person upon whose life the substituted policy is issued had not been assured with the society or company before the issue of that policy Rule for Ascertaining the Amount of a Free Paid-up Policy The amount of a free paid-up policy is to be a sum bearing the same proportion to seventy-five per cent. of the value of the policy as the sum of one pound bears to the value of the reversion in the sum of one pound according to the contingency upon which the sum assured under the original policy was payable. General Rules applicable both for valuing Policies and for ascertaining the amount of a Free Paid-up Policy 1 Interest is to be assumed at the rate of four per centum per annum. 2 The rate of mortality is to be assumed according to the table contained in the Sixth column of Table G. in the Supplement to the Sixty-fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General. 3 The age of the person whose life is assured shall be obtained by adding to the age attained by him at his birthday next after the date of the issue of the policy, the duration of the policy in completed years at the date as at which the value of the policy is required to be ascertained. 4 In the case of a policy issued for a term other than the whole term of life, the remaining term at the date at which the value of the policy is required to be ascertained shall be obtained by deducting from the original term of the policy the duration of the policy in completed years at that date.
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