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Industrial Assurance (Northern Ireland) Order 1979

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Misstatements, and non-disclosure, in proposalsN.I.

27.[F1(1) If an industrial assurance policy was issued pursuant to a proposal which contained a statement that the person whose life was proposed to be assured was not at the time of making that proposal a person on whose life another policy had been issued by the relevant insurer that accepted the proposal, that policy is valid, notwithstanding that the statement was not true, and that the truth of the statement was made a condition of the policy.]

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), if a proposal form for an industrial assurance policy[F1 was filled in] wholly or partly by a person employed by the collecting society or industrial assurance company,[F1 a collecting society or industrial assurance company which receives, or is entitled to receive, premiums under that policy shall not], except where a fraudulent statement in some material particular[F1 had been made] by the proposer, be entitled to question the validity of the policy founded on the proposal on the ground of any misstatement contained in the proposal form.

(3) If the proposal form mentioned in paragraph (2) contains a misstatement as to the age of the person whose life is proposed to be assured, the society or company may so adjust the terms of the policy, or of any policy which may be issued in substitution or in lieu thereof, as to make them correspond with the terms which would have been applicable if the correct age of the person had been originally inserted in the proposal.

(4) In relation to a policy issued after 22nd December 1948, paragraph (2) does not apply to a misstatement concerning the state of health of the person upon whose life the assurance is to be taken out.

(5) Nothing in any term or condition of an industrial assurance policy issued after 22nd December 1948, or in the law relating to insurance shall operate to except the collecting society or industrial assurance company from liability under such a policy, or to reduce the liability of the society or company under such a policy, on the ground of any matter relating to the state of health of the person upon whose life the assurance is taken out, other than the ground of the proposer's having, when making the proposal or thereafter and before the making of the contract, either—

(a)made an untrue statement of his knowledge and belief as regards that matter; or

(b)failed to disclose to the society or company something known or believed by him as regards that matter.

F1SI 2001/3647

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