Part II Regulation of Insurance Companies
Accounts and statements
23 Right of shareholders and policy holders to receive copies of deposited documents.
(1)
Subject to subsection (2) below, an insurance company shall forward by post or otherwise to any shareholder or policy holder who applies for one—
(a)
a printed copy of any of the documents last deposited by the company under subsection (1) F1. . . of section 22 above;
(b)
a copy of any document supplied to the F2Treasury under subsection (5) of that section which relates to any of those documents;
(c)
a copy of any report deposited with any of those documents under subsection (6) of that section.
(2)
If, in the opinion of the F2Treasury, the disclosure of information contained in—
(a)
a statement or report annexed to a document prepared in pursuance of section 17(1) above by an insurance company; or
(b)
a statement prepared in pursuance of section 20 above by such a company,
would be harmful to the business of the company or of any of its subsidiaries, the F2Treasury may dispense the company from complying with the obligation imposed by subsection (1) above to forward a copy of the document containing the information to a shareholder or policy holder who applies for it.