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INSURANCE CONTRACTS REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 24

Prescribed contracts

  (1)   The following class of contracts of insurance is declared to be a class of contracts in relation to which Division   1 of Part   V of the Act applies, namely, contracts that provide insurance cover (whether the cover is limited or restricted in any way) in respect of the insured person :

  (a)   contracting a sickness or disease or a specified sickness or disease ; or

  (b)   sustaining an injury or a specified injury ;

where the insured or one of the insureds is a natural person .

  (2)   However, the class of contracts does not include any of the following:

  (a)   a life policy within the meaning of the Life Insurance Act 1995 ;

  (b)   a continuous disability insurance contract incorporated within a life policy within the meaning of the Life Insurance Act 1995 ;

  (c)   a sickness and accident polic y that:

  (i)   is guaranteed renewable at the option of the insured; or

  (ii)   the insurer guarantees not to cancel in response to a change in the risk;

    where the policy has been effected for a predetermined period of years in excess of 1 year;

  (d)   a contract that is included in a class of contracts that is declared by some other section to be a class of contracts in relation to which Division   1 of Part   V of the Act applies.



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