{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/174",
  "legislation_title": "The Insurance Companies (Amendment) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and purpose",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Insurance Companies (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 20th May 1993.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the 1982 Act” means the Insurance Companies Act 1982;\n“the 1986 Act” means the Financial Services Act 1986;\n“the 1992 Regulations” means the Insurance Companies (Amendment) Regulations 1992.\n(3) These Regulations give effect to Council Directive 90/619/EEC of 8 November 1990 on the coordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to direct life assurance, laying down provisions to facilitate the effective exercise of freedom to provide services and amending Directive 79/267/EEC.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1982 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2890."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L330, 29.11.90, p.50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "O.J. No. L63, 13.3.79, p.1; amended by the 1979 Act of Accession (Greece) (O.J. No. L291, 19.11.79, p.17), the 1985 Act of Accession (Portugal and Spain) (O.J. No. L302, 15.11.85, p.23) and Council Directive 90/619/EEC."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/174/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:06:07.011122+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."
}