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LIFE INSURANCE ACT 1995 - SECT 52

Restructure of statutory funds

  (1)   The prudential standards may provide that:

  (a)   a life company may apply to APRA to restructure its statutory funds by making one or more policies that are referable to a statutory fund or funds of the company become referable to another statutory fund or funds of the company (whether existing or proposed); and

  (b)   if the application is approved, the restructure is to take place.

  (2)   The fund, or each fund, to which the policies are referable before the restructure is a transferring fund , and the fund, or each fund, to which the policies will become referable after the restructure is a receiving fund .

  (3)   Without limiting the generality of subsection   (1), the prudential standards may provide for the following:

  (a)   requirements for making the application;

  (b)   criteria for approving or refusing to approve the application;

  (c)   requirements to notify interested persons of the outcome of the application;

  (d)   matters connected with how the restructure takes place, including the following:

  (i)   policies becoming referable to a receiving fund or funds;

  (ii)   policy and other liabilities becoming referable to a receiving fund or funds;

  (iii)   assets of a transferring fund becoming assets of a receiving fund or funds;

  (iv)   the timing of the restructure;

  (v)   if a receiving fund is a proposed new statutory fund--the establishment of that fund;

  (e)   requirements for the company to give APRA information following the restructure.

  (4)   APRA cannot approve the application if it considers that:

  (a)   the restructure will result in unfairness to the owners of policies referable to a transferring fund or a receiving fund when those owners are viewed as a group; or

  (b)   immediately after the restructure:

  (i)   a transferring fund will not satisfy the prudential standards in relation to solvency; or

  (ii)   a receiving fund will not satisfy the prudential standards in relation to solvency; or

  (c)   the company is being wound up when the application is made.


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