Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 1

PART ICLASSES OF LONG TERM BUSINESS

NumberDescriptionNature of business
ILife and annuity.Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance on human life or contracts to pay annuities on human life, but excluding (in each case) contracts within Class III below.
IIMarriage and birth.Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance to provide a sum on marriage or on the birth of a child, being contracts expressed to be in effect for a period of more than one year.
IIILinked long term.Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance on human life or contracts to pay annuities on human life where the benefits are wholly or partly to be determined by reference to the value of, or the income from, property of any description (whether or not specified in the contracts) or by reference to fluctuation in, or in an index of, the value of property of any description (whether or not so specified).
IVPermanent health.

Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance providing specified benefits against risks of persons becoming incapacitated in consequence of sustaining injury as a result of an accident or of an accident of a specified class or of sickness or infirmity, being contracts that–

(a)

are expressed to be in effect for a period of not less than five years, or until the normal retirement age for the persons concerned, or without limit of time, and

(b)

either are not expressed to be terminable by the insurer, or are expressed to be so terminable only in special circumstances mentioned in the contract.

VTontines.Effecting and carrying out tontines.
VICapital redemption.Effecting and carrying out capital redemption contracts.
VIIPension fund management.

Effecting and carrying out–

(a)

contracts to manage the investments of pension funds, or

(b)

contracts of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a) above that are combined with contracts of insurance covering either conservation of capital or payment of a minimum interest.

PART IICLASSES OF SUPPLEMENTARY BUSINESS

NumberDescriptionNature of business
1Accident.

Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance providing fixed pecuniary benefits or benefits in the nature of indemnity (or a combination of both) against risks of the person insured or, in the case of a contract made by virtue of section 140, 140A or 140B of the Local Government Act 1972, a person for whose benefit the contract is made–

(a)

sustaining injury as the result of an accident or of an accident of a specified class, or

(b)

dying as the result of an accident or of an accident of a specified class, or

(c)

becoming incapacitated in consequence of disease or of disease of a specified class,

inclusive of contracts relating to industrial injury and occupational disease but exclusive of contracts falling within class 2 below or within class IV in Part I of this Schedule (permenant health).

2.Sickness.Effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance providing fixed pecuniary benefits or benefits in the nature of indemnity (or a combination of the two) against risks of loss to the persons insured attributable to sickness or infirmity, but exclusive of contracts falling within class IV in Part I of this Schedule.