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Financial Sector Regulation Act, 2017 (Act No. 9 of 2017)

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Deposit Insurance Regulations, 2024

Chapter II: Coverage

4. Coverage rules

 

(1) The Corporation must cover a sole proprietor as a separate qualifying depositor.

 

(2) The Corporation must cover an informal beneficiary account holder as a formal beneficiary account when a bank—
(a) collects and maintains the constitution document of an informal beneficiary account;
(b) can identify and record the members and their entitlement balances for a reporting date in terms of the constitution document for an informal beneficiary account; and
(c) reports the account as a formal beneficiary account to the Corporation.

 

(3) The Corporation must cover a co-operative financial institution as an informal beneficiary account holder.

 

(4) The Corporation must―
(a) cover a qualifying depositor’s share in a joint account according to the sharing ratio specified by the account holders in the records of the bank; or
(b) if the account holders did not specify a sharing ratio in the records of the bank, cover a qualifying depositor’s share in a joint account by dividing the account balance equally between the account holders.

 

(5) If a bank is a party to an amalgamation or merger transaction as contemplated in section 54 of the Banks Act, the Corporation must cover a qualifying depositor of an affected bank for their covered deposits held at the bank for as long as the bank remains a member of the Corporation.

 

(6) For the purposes of subregulation (5), the Corporation must cover a qualifying depositor of an affected bank as follows:
(a) Prior to the transaction effective date, the Corporation must cover a qualifying depositor of each affected bank for their covered deposits; or
(b) after the transaction effective date, the Corporation must cover a qualifying depositor of the amalgamated or combined bank for their covered deposits.