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Paragraph 1 Accident

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 M1 (or, in Scotland, section 86(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 M2), 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 a 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,

including contracts relating to industrial injury and occupational disease but excluding contracts falling within paragraph 2 of Part I of, or paragraph IV of Part II of, this Schedule.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

S.I. 1999/2725, amended by S.I. 2000/1797.

M2

1972 c. 70. Section 140 was amended by the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30), s. 39(1) and Sch. 7, Part XVI; by the Insurance Companies Act 1982 (c. 50), Sch. 5, para. 13; and by the London Regional Transport Act 1984 (c. 32), Sch. 7. Section 140A was inserted by s. 39(2) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (c. 30), and amended by the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 10), Sch. 2, para. 28, and by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Sch. 24. Section 140B was inserted by s. 39(2) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, and amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Sch. 17, and by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19), Sch. 15, para. 31.

Notes on Schedule 1

Modifications

C1

Sch. 1 applied in part (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1335), art. 25(2), reg. 1(2); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)

C2

Sch. 1 applied in part (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1335), art. 10(2), reg. 1(2); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)