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LIFE INSURANCE ACT 1995 - SECT 161D

Moratorium--effect of judicial management on supply of essential services

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a life company is under judicial management; and

  (b)   the judicial manager requests, or authorises someone else to request, a person or authority (the supplier ) to supply an essential service to the life company in Australia; and

  (c)   the life company owes an amount to the supplier in respect of the supply of the essential service before the day on which the judicial manager took control of the life company's business;

the supplier must not:

  (d)   refuse to comply with the request for the reason only that the amount is owing; or

  (e)   make it a condition of the supply of the essential service pursuant to the request that the amount is to be paid.

Note:   The Court may grant an injunction under section   235 in respect of a contravention of this subsection.

  (2)   In this section:

"essential service" has the same meaning as in section   600F of the Corporations Act 2001.


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