Section 4 Retrospective operation of Act.

Any endowment policy issued before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, which would have been in force on that date if this Act had been in operation on and from the date on which the policy was issued shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been in force on the said first day of January and, in the case of a policy of the description mentioned in section one of this Act, to have been issued in accordance with the provisions of that section, and as respects any endowment policy in force on, or issued since, that date, this Act shall be deemed to have been in operation on and from the date on which the policy was issued.