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INSURANCE CONTRACTS REGULATIONS 2017 (F2017L01658) - 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 policy 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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