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Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II CONDUCT OF INSURANCE BUSINESS

General restriction on insurers

Registration of Singapore insurers

Deposits, registers of policies and insurance funds

Miscellaneous requirements as to conduct of business

Part IIA FOREIGN INSURER SCHEMES

Part IIB INSURANCE INTERMEDIARIES

General

Conduct of Insurance Broking Business

Part III RETURNS, INSPECTIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS, WINDING UP AND TRANSFERS OF BUSINESS

Returns

Inspections and Investigations

Winding up

Transfers of business

Part IIIA ASSISTANCE TO FOREIGN REGULATORY AUTHORITIES

Part IIIB APPEALS

Part IV MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Administration and enforcement

Miscellaneous amendments of law

Supplementary

THE SCHEDULE Definition of Insurance Terms

Legislative History

Comparative Table

 
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On 18/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 18/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 18/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 31/12/2002.
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Insurance agent to operate under written agreement
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—(1)  An insurance agent shall not arrange, or hold himself out as entitled to arrange, a contract of insurance as agent for a registered insurer unless an agreement in writing between the insurance agent and the insurer authorises the insurance agent to arrange, as agent for that insurer —
(a)
that contract;
(b)
any contract of insurance; or
(c)
any class of contracts of insurance which includes that contract.
[41/2001]
(2)  A registered insurer shall not cause or permit an insurance agent to arrange, or hold himself out as entitled to arrange, a contract of insurance as agent for that insurer unless an agreement in writing between the insurer and the insurance agent authorises the insurance agent to arrange, as agent for that insurer —
(a)
that contract;
(b)
any contract of insurance; or
(c)
any class of contracts of insurance which includes that contract.
[41/2001]
(3)  Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply in relation to any act or thing done by an employee of a registered insurer in the course of performing his duties as such an employee.
[41/2001]
(4)  Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $25,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $2,500 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction.
[41/2001]