3(1)M1 Where a policy is issued or a contract is made by a [F1friendly society] or a policy to which paragraph 2 above applies is issued by an industrial assurance company, section 266(4), (5) and (8) shall apply in relation to premiums payable under the policy or contract subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.U.K.
(2)References to the deductions authorised under section 266(5) shall be construed as including references to any amount retained by or refunded to the person paying the premium under any scheme made by the society or company in accordance with regulations made under this paragraph.
(3)The appropriate authority may make regulations authorising—
(a)the adoption by [F1friendly societies] and industrial assurance companies of any prescribed scheme for securing that in the case of policies or contracts to which the scheme applies amounts equal to [F212.5 per cent.] of the premiums payable are retained by or refunded to the person paying the premiums or that, in the case of such policies or contracts issued or made before 6th April 1979, the amounts expressed as the amounts of the premiums payable are treated as amounts arrived at by deducting [F212.5 per cent.] from the amounts payable and that the amounts of the capital sums assured or guaranteed are treated as correspondingly increased; or
(b)the adoption by any such society or company of any special scheme for that purpose which may, in such circumstances as may be prescribed, be approved by the appropriate authority.
(4)Increases treated as made in pursuance of regulations under this paragraph shall not be treated as variations of a policy or contract and shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph 2(3) above, sections 268(6), 460, 461(1) and 464 of, and paragraph 7 of Schedule 15 to, this Act F3 . . . .
(5)The regulations may include such adaptations and modifications of the enactments relating to friendly societies or industrial assurance companies and such other incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the appropriate authority necessary or expedient for the purpose of enabling such societies or companies to adopt the schemes authorised by the regulations.
(6)Subsections (4), (5) and (7) to (11) of section 6 of the M2Decimal Currency Act 1969 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to regulations made under this paragraph.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 14 para. 3(1)(3)(a) substituted (19.2.1993) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 56, Sch. 9 para. 18(2)(3); S.I. 1993/236, art.2
F2Words in Sch. 14 para. 3(3)(a) substituted (6.4.1989) by Finance Act 1988 (c. 39), s. 29
F3Words in Sch. 14 para. 3(4) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 173 of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), Sch. 17 Pt. 9, Note
Marginal Citations
M1Source—1976 Sch.4 13; 1978 Sch.3 7; 1980 s.29(2)(c); 1987 Sch.15 9