New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DUTIES ACT 1997 - SECT 247

247 Who is an insurer?

(1) An insurer is a life company that writes life insurance or a general insurer.

(2) A general insurer is a person--

(a) who writes general insurance, and

(b) who does so otherwise than as an insurance intermediary, and

(c) who is authorised as a general insurer under the Commonwealth Insurance Act 1973 .

Note :
"Life company" and
"insurance intermediary" are defined in the Dictionary.