Section 40. Insurable interest required for life insurances. (INSURANCE ACT, 1963

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

PART IV - MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL
Miscellaneous amendments of law

Section 40. Insurable interest required for life insurances.

(1) A life policy insuring the life of anyone other than the person effecting the insurance or a person connected with him as mentioned in sub-section (2) shall be void unless the person effecting the insurance has an insurable interest in that life at the time the insurance is effected; and the policy moneys paid under such a policy shall not exceed the amount of that insurable interest at that time.

(2) The lives excepted from sub-section (1), besides that of the person effecting the insurance, are those of that person's wife or husband, of that person's child or ward being under the age of majority at the time the insurance is effected, and of anyone on whom that person is at that time wholly or partly dependent.

(3) In this section "insuring the life of" a perso means insuring the payment of money (or the equivalent) on that person's death or on the happening of any contingency dependent on the termination or continuance of that person's life, and includes granting an annuity to commence on that death or at a time to be determined by reference thereto or to any such contingency.

(4) In so far as in the case of any life policy the policy moneys do not consist wholly of a cash payment due on the death in question, the limit under this section on the amount to be paid shall be applied by reference to the value of the right to the policy moneys immediately after the death or the happening beford the death of any event on which they become payable.

(5) This section shall not affect policies issued before the commencement of this Act.