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Long Term Insurance Act, 1998 (Act No. 52 of 1998)

Part VII : Business practice, policies and policyholder protection

Policies

57. Life policy in relation to person rendering or liable to render military service

 

1) A long-term insurer shall not refuse to enter into a life policy on the grounds that the life insured is a person rendering or liable to render military service in accordance with the Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957).

 

2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in a life policy contained, the policy benefits to be provided thereunder in the event of the death of the life insured in the course of or as a result of the rendering of military service in accordance with the Defence Act, 1957, shall not be less than an amount equal to the value for which the policy could be surrendered on the day of the death of the life insured, had the regulations not been made.