{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-reserves-regulations-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-reserves-regulations-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/946",
  "legislation_title": "The Insurance Companies (Reserves) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insurance-companies-reserves-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 23rd December 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 the authorisation of the carrying on of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by sections 17, 34A, 90, 96(1) and 97 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/427; S.I. 1976/2141."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1982 c. 50; section 34A was inserted by the Insurance Companies (Reserves) Act 1995 (c. 29), section 1(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/946/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:24.566588+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."
}