Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010

1. Introduction

2. Background

   1. Review of Current Position

3. Summary of Reforms

   1. Rights of Action for the Third Party

   2. Insurer’s Defences

   3. Scope

4. Territorial Extent and Application

5. Commentary on Sections

   1. Section 1: Rights against insurer of insolvent person

   2. Section 2: Establishing liability in England and Wales and Northern Ireland

   3. Section 3: Establishing liability in Scotland

   4. Section 4: Individuals

   5. Section 5: Individuals who die insolvent

   6. Section 6: Corporate bodies

   7. Section 7: Scottish trusts

   8. Section 8: Limit on rights transferred

   9. Section 9: Conditions affecting transferred rights

   10. Section 10: Insurer’s right of set off

   11. Section 11: Information and disclosure for third parties and Schedule 1

   12. Schedule 1: Information and disclosure for third parties

       1. Paragraph 1: Notices requesting information

       2. Paragraph 2: Provision of information where notice given under paragraph 1

       3. Paragraph 3: Notices requiring disclosure: defunct bodies

       4. Paragraph 4: Disclosure and inspection where notice given under paragraph 3

       5. Paragraph 5: Avoidance

       6. Paragraph 6: Other rights to information

       7. Paragraph 7: Interpretation

   13. Section 12: Limitation and prescription

   14. Section 13: Jurisdiction within the United Kingdom

   15. Section 14: Effect of transfer on insured’s liability

   16. Section 15: Reinsurance

   17. Section 16: Voluntarily-incurred liabilities

   18. Section 17: Avoidance

   19. Section 18: Cases with a foreign element

   20. Section 19: Power to amend Act

   21. Section 20: Amendments, transitionals, repeals, and Schedules 2, 3 and 4

   22. Section 21: Short title, commencement and extent

6. Commencement

7. Hansard References