On 18/06/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 18/06/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 18/06/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 15/03/1994.
15.
—(1) Every registered insurer shall establish and keep a register of Singapore policies where it carries on business relating to Singapore policies and a register of offshore policies where it carries on business relating to offshore policies.
(2) Subject to this section, there shall be entered in the register of Singapore policies all Singapore policies of the insurer and in the register of offshore policies all offshore policies of the insurer, and no policy entered in any register shall be removed from it so long as the insurer is under any liability in respect of that policy.
(3) Subject to this section, there may be entered in the register of Singapore policies such other policies as the insurer with the consent (express or implied) of the policy owners may determine, and this Act shall apply in relation to any policy so entered as if it were a Singapore policy.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), an insurer carrying on life business outside Singapore (and not doing so only by the collection or receipt of premiums) may, at the request of the policy owner of a policy belonging to the insurer’s life business —
(a)
refrain from entering the policy in the register of Singapore policies, notwithstanding that it is a Singapore policy; or
(b)
remove the policy from the register of Singapore policies,
and this Act shall thereafter apply in relation to the policy as if it were not a Singapore policy.
(5) Regulations may provide that subsection (3) or (4) shall apply only in such cases as may be prescribed or shall have effect subject to any prescribed exceptions or restrictions.
(6) A Singapore insurer shall, at the request of any person having an interest in any policy of the insurer, inform him whether or not the policy is entered in any register of policies established by the insurer under this Act.
(7) Where a Singapore insurer has established under this Act any register of policies, the register shall cease to exist as a statutory register under this Act of policies belonging to either class of insurance business, if the insurer ceases to be registered under this Act in respect of that class of business; and any reference in this Act to policies registered under this Act shall be construed accordingly.
(8) Subject to subsection (7), any register of policies established by a Singapore insurer shall, notwithstanding that the insurer at any time ceases to carry on in Singapore either class of insurance business, continue to be maintained by the insurer for policies belonging to that class so long as the insurer is under any liability in respect of those policies registered or required to be registered at that time; but no policies belonging to either class of business shall be entered in the register under subsection (3) when the insurer is not carrying on that class of business in Singapore, or is doing so only by the collection or receipt of premiums.
(9) A register of policies established and kept by an insurer under this section before 1st January 1987 shall be deemed to be a register of Singapore policies under subsection (1).
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