(P.M. ACT 1 OF 1963)
INSURANCE ACT, 1963

PART III - RETURNS, INVESTIGATIONS, WINDING UP AND TRANSFERS OF BUSINESS
Returns

Section 25. Additional provisions as to returns under sections 22 and 23.

(1) Any member or Policy owner of an insurer shall have a right, on applying to the insurer, to be sent by the insurer at an address supplied by him copies of documents under lodged by the insurer to comply with section 22 or 23, and to have the copies despatched not later than fourteen days after the insurer receives the application:

Provided that the right shaIl not extend to any document excepted from this provision by Part I of the Fourth Schedule, or to a document any other description except the last lodged of that description.

(2) Any person shall have the right, on payment of the prescribed fee, at any time during working hours of the office of the Commissioner, to inspect at that office any document lodged by an insurer to comply with section 22 or 23 and any document required by sub-section (5) of section 22 and sub-section (3 ) of section 23 to accompany the documents so lodged, an make a copy of the whole or any part of it:

Provided that the right shall not extend to any document excepted from this provision by Part I of the Fourth Schedule, or to documents of any other description lodged more than ten years previously.

(3) In any proceedings a certificate signed by the Commissioner that a document is one lodged by an insurer to comply with section 22 or 23, or one that accompanied documents so lodged, shall be admissible as evidence of the facts certified.

(4) Where an insurer fails to comply with section 22 or 23, the insurer shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of five thousand dollars, and to a daily fine of fifty dollars.

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