§ MR. M'CARTAN (Down, S.)asked Mr. Attorney General, Whether, considering the disclosures made during the recent trials for the Belfast assurance frauds, heard at Wicklow Assizes, the Government will give facilities, now or at the beginning of next Session, to pass a Bill providing, among other things, for the local registration of the names and addresses of persons on whose lives policies of assurance have been obtained by other persons, and making it criminal for one person to effect a policy on the life of another person where there is no insurable interest?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir RICHARD WEBSTER) (Isle of Wight)In reply to the hon. Member, I am afraid it is not possible for me to give an undertaking of the character asked in the hon. Member's Question; but the subject of the existing state of the law as to policies of insurance is receiving the attention of Her Majesty's Government. I ought, however, to say that, as I understand the facts, the Belfast frauds were not occasioned by any defect in the existing law.