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Short-Term Insurance Act, 1998 (Act No. 53 of 1998)

Part VII : Business practice, policies and policyholder protection

Business practice

45. Collection of premiums by intermediaries

 

(1) No independent intermediary shall receive, hold, or in any other manner deal with premiums payable under a short-term policy entered into or to be entered into with a short-term insurer,  and no such short-term insurer shall permit such independent intermediary to so receive, hold or in any other manner deal with such premiums—
(a) unless authorised to do so by the short-term insurer concerned, as prescribed by regulation; and
(b) otherwise than in accordance with the regulations.

 

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply in the case of a short-term reinsurance policy unless and to the extent that the Authority so determines by notice in the Gazette.

 

[Section 45 substituted by item 11 of schedule 1 of Act No. 18 of 2017, GG 41388, dated 18 January 2018]