Section 5 Short title, citation, construction and extent.

This Act may be cited as the M1Industrial Assurance and Friendly Societies Act 1929 and this Act and the M2Industrial Assurance Acts 1923 and M31926 may be cited together as the Industrial Assurance Acts 1923 to 1929 . . . F1

For the purposes of this Act—

• “Policy” includes any contract of assurance and the date of the making of any such contract shall be deemed to be the date of the issue of a policy; and

• “Endowment policy” means a policy issued or deemed under this Act to have been issued in accordance with the provisions of section one of this Act, or a policy insuring money to be paid on the duration for a specified period of the life of the member or person assured, either with or without provision for the payment of money in the event of the death of that person before the expiration of the period F2and either with or without provision for the payment of money before the expiration of that period and during the life of that person in the event of the marriage of that person or otherwise.

References in this Act . . . to the M4Industrial Assurance Act 1923, shall be construed as references to those Acts as amended or applied by any subsequent enactment, and this Act in its application to . . . industrial assurance companies shall be construed as one with the M5Industrial Assurance Acts 1923 and M61926, . . .

This Act shall extend to Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.