{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-long-term-insurance-business-regulations-1987/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-long-term-insurance-business-regulations-1987/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2132",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Long Term Insurance Business) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-long-term-insurance-business-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Scope of authorisation",
  "text": "(1) An authorisation issued by the Chief Registrar under regulation 6 above shall specify the class or classes of insurance business which may be carried on.\n(2) An authorisation issued under regulation 5 or 6 above shall cover the whole of a class so specified unless either–\n(a) the society wishes to cover only part of the risks pertaining to the class, or\n(b) the Chief Registrar restricts the authorisation requested for a class to the operations set out in the scheme of operations required under Schedule 2.\n(3) A society may not carry on industrial assurance business by virtue of an authorisation under regulation 5 or 6 above unless the authorisation expressly extends to it; and an authorisation to carry on Class I long term business may be restricted to Class I business other than industrial assurance business or to industrial assurance business alone.\n(4) An authorisation under regulation 5 or 6 shall be valid for the whole of the United Kingdom unless the society seeks authorisation to carry on business only in a specified part thereof, and the authorisation is limited accordingly.\n(5) An authorisation under regulation 5 or 6 shall not be construed so as to extend the description of societies which may be registered under section 7(1)(a) of the 1974 Act or to extend the purposes for which such societies may provide.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2132/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:15:26.669038+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}