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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Section 377: Reducing the value of contracts instead of winding up

654.This section is intended to facilitate timely payments on, or the transfer of, insurance contracts of a company which has become insolvent, rather than leaving these to be matters to be resolved at the end of an insolvency process, which may take a considerable period of time.

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