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In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 24 of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 (41 of 1999), the Central Government hereby, makes the following rules, namely:—
As per these rules, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) proposals up to 26 per cent of the total paid-up equity of the Indian Insurance Company shall be allowed on the automatic route, and FDI proposals which take the total Foreign Investment above 26 per cent and up to the cap of 49 per cent shall require FIPB approval.
Insurance Sector has entered into the seventh year of effective AML/CFT regime. At this juncture, there is a felt need to capture certain information on AML/CFT matters on a regular basis.
The Authority has recently notified IRDA (Health Insurance) Regulations, 2013 and IRDA (Third Party Administrators – Health Services) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2013. The guidelines on ‘Standardization of Health Insurance’ have been issued by the Authority on 20th Feb., 2012.
The license granted by the Authority may be cancelled by the Authority where the surveyor and loss assessor does not represent within a period of 45 days from the date of order of suspension.
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) created to issue a unique identification number (“Aadhaar”) to residents of India authorize/recognize “Registrars’ to enroll individuals for Aadhaar. We note that currently UIDAI has primarily engaged with State Governments, Central Ministries and public sector organizations to act as Registrars. As per the information available with the Authority, in the insurance sector only Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is registered as Registrar with UIDAI.
A specified Person who resigns from a Micro Insurance Agent is eligible for reappointment as a specified person of other Micro Insurance Agent or any other licensed Corporate Agent only after the expiry of 3 months from the date of the resignation.
All the insurers are advised to publicize this among their agents so as to ensure that the maximum numbers of archived agency licenses are renewed. The insurers shall also furnish month wise data pertaining to these renewals to Joint Director,
The percentage cessions of the sum insured on each General Insurance Policy to be reinsured with the Indian Reinsurer shall be 5% in respect of insurances attaching during the year 1st April, 2013 to 31st March, 2014.
In view of the above, it is hereby clarified that, Reverse Repo transactions in Government Securities are treated at par with CBLO transactions and 10% investment limits are not applicable to Reverse Repo transactions in Government Securities in line with CBLO transactions.
