{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-amendment-no-2-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/944",
  "legislation_title": "The Insurance Companies (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-amendment-no-2-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "INSURANCE\nMade 24th March 1996\nLaid before Parliament 28th March 1996\nComing into force 30th April 1996\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers, the transfer of insurance contracts other than contracts of life assurance from one insurance undertaking to another, and in relation to the authorisation of the carrying on of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct, the specification of insurers who may effect insurance required under or by virtue of any enactment, and the transfer of contracts of life assurance from one insurance undertaking to another and in relation to anything supplemental or incidental to those matters, in exercise of his powers under the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811; S.I. 1975/427; S.I. 1976/2141; S.I. 1982/847; S.I. 1990/600."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183)."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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