{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-act-1982-repealed/schedule-2F/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-act-1982-repealed/schedule-2F/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/50",
  "legislation_title": "Insurance Companies Act 1982 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-act-1982-repealed",
  "path": "schedule/2F/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Treasury that an EFTA company providing insurance in the United Kingdom has failed to comply with any provision of this Act, they may require it to take such steps as they may specify to comply with that provision.\n(2) If the company fails to comply with a requirement under sub-paragraph (1) above, the Treasury shall notify the supervisory authority in the EEA State in which the establishment through which the insurance is provided is situated.\n(3) If the company persists in contravening a provision which has been the subject of arequirement under sub-paragraph (1) above, the Treasury may, after informing that supervisory authority, direct the company to cease to provide insurance, or insurance of any specified description, in the United Kingdom.\n(4) After giving such a direction, the Treasury shall by notice in writing inform the company of their reasons for doing so.\n(5) A direction under this paragraph does not prevent the company from effecting a contract ofinsurance in pursuance of a term of a subsisting contract of insurance.\n(6) A requirement or direction under this paragraph may be varied or revoked by the Treasury.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2F para. 20 substituted (5.1.1998) by S.I. 1997/2781, art. 8, Sch. Pt. I para. 72 (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2F para. 20(1) substituted (5.1.1998) by S.I. 1997/2781, art. 8, Sch. Pt. I para. 83(a) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2F para. 20(4) substituted (5.1.1998) by S.I. 1997/2781, art.8, Sch. Pt. I para. 83(b) (with art. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/50/schedule/2F/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:47.436123+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."
}