HC Deb 24 November 1909 vol 13 cc243-5

This Act shall apply to all persons or bodies of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, not being registered under the Acts relating to friendly societies or to trade unions (hereinafter referred to as assurance companies), whether established before or after the commencement of this Act and whether established within or without the United Kingdom, who carry on within the United Kingdom assurance business of all or any of the following classes:—

  1. (a) Life assurance business; that is to say, the issue of, or the undertaking of liability under, policies of assurance upon human life, or the granting of annuities upon human life;
  2. (b) Fire insurance business; that is to say, the issue of, or the undertaking of liability under, policies of insurance against loss by or incidental to fire;
  3. (c) Accident insurance business; that is to say, the issue of or the undertaking of liability under, policies of insurance upon the happening of personal accidents, whether fatal or not, disease, or sickness, or any class of personal accidents, disease, or sickness;
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  4. (d) Employers' liability insurance business; that is to say, the issue of, or the undertaking of liability under, policies insuring employers against liability to pay compensation or damages to workmen in their employment;
  5. (c) Bond investment business; that is to say, the business of issuing bonds or endowment certificates by which the company, in return for subscriptions payable at periodical intervals of two months or less, contract to pay the bond holder a sum at a future date, and not being life assurance business as hereinbefore defined;
subject as respects any class of assurance business to the special provisions of this Act relating to business of that class:

A company registered under the Companies Acts which transact assurance business of any such class as aforesaid in any part of the world shall for the purpses of this provision be deemed to be a company transacting such business within the United Kingdom.

The PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. Churchill)

moved in Subsection (1), after the words, "trade unions" to insert the words "which persons and bodies of persons are."

In moving this Amendment, which is purely verbal, may I express my regret that I was not in my place when the Bill was called on?

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.