Related provisions for BIPRU 12.7.7
- (1)
Before a pure protection contract is concluded, a firm must communicate, at least,1 the information in the table below to the customer.1
1 - (2)
The information must be provided in a clear and accurate manner, in writing, and in an official language of the State of the commitment or in another language if the policyholder so requests and the law of the State of the commitment so permits or the policyholder is free to choose the applicable law.1
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Information to be communicated before conclusion |
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(1) |
The name of the insurance undertaking and its legal form. |
(2) |
The name of the EEA State in which the head office and, where appropriate, the agency or branch1 concluding the contract is situated. 1 |
(3) |
The address of the head office and, where appropriate, of the agency or branch concluding the contract. |
1(3a) |
A concrete reference to the firm'sSFCR allowing the policyholder easy access to this information. |
(4)* |
Definition of each benefit and each option. |
(5)* |
Term of the contract. |
(6)* |
Means of terminating the contract. |
(7)* |
Means of payment of premiums and duration of payments. |
(8)* |
Information on the premiums for each benefit, both main benefits and supplementary benefits, where appropriate. |
(9)*1 |
Arrangements for application of the cancellation period. |
(10) |
General information on the tax arrangements applicable to the type of policy. |
(11) |
The arrangements for handling complaints concerning contracts by policyholders, lives assured or beneficiaries1 under contracts including, where appropriate, the existence of a complaints body (usually the Financial Ombudsman Service), without prejudice to the right to take legal proceedings. 1 |
(12) |
The law applicable to the contract where the parties do not have a free choice or, where the parties are free to choose the law applicable, the law the firm1 proposes to choose. 1 |
Note: The rule on mid-term changes applies to items marked with an asterisk (see ICOBS 6.3.3 R). |
[Note: article 185 of the Solvency II Directive1]
1Schedule to the Recognition Requirements Regulations, Paragraph 7B
2(1) |
The [UK RIE] must make transparent and non-discriminatory rules, based on objective criteria, governing access to, or membership of, its facilities. |
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(2) |
In particular those rules must specify the obligations for users or members of its facilities arising from - |
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(a) |
the constitution and administration of the [UK RIE]; |
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(b) |
rules relating to transactions on the market; |
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(c) |
its professional standards for staff of any investment firm or credit institution having access to or membership of a financial market operated by the [UK RIE]; |
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(d) |
conditions established under sub-paragraph (3)(c) for access to or membership of a financial market operated by the [UK RIE] by persons other than investment firms or credit institutions; and |
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(e) |
the rules and procedures for clearing and settlement of transactions concluded on a financial market operated by the [UK RIE]. |
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(3) |
Rules of the [UK RIE] about access to, or membership of, a financial market operated by it must permit the [UK RIE] to give access to or admit to membership (as the case may be) only - |
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(a) |
an investment firm, |
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(b) |
a credit institution, or |
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(c) |
a person who - |
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(i) |
is fit and proper, |
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(ii) |
has a sufficient level of trading ability and competence, |
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(iii) |
where applicable, has adequate organisational arrangements, and |
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(iv) |
has sufficient resources for the role he is to perform, taking into account the [UK RIE's] arrangements under paragraph 4(2)(d). |
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(4) |
Rules under this paragraph must enable - |
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(a) |
an investment firm authorised under Article 5 of [MiFID], or |
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(b) |
a credit institution authorised under the Banking Consolidation Directive, |
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by the competent authority of another EEA State (including a branch established in the United Kingdom of such a firm or institution) to have direct or remote access to or membership of, any financial market operated by the [UK RIE] on the same terms as a UK firm. |
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(5) |
The [UK RIE] must make arrangements regularly to provide the [FCA]3 with a list of users or members of its facilities. 3 |
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(6) |
This paragraph is without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 4. |
Schedule to the Recognition Requirements Regulations, Paragraph 7C
2(1) |
This paragraph applies to [a UK RIE] which provides central counterparty, clearing or settlement facilities. |
(2) |
The [UK RIE] must make transparent and non-discriminatory rules based on objective criteria, governing access to those facilities. |
(3) |
The rules under sub-paragraph (2) must enable an investment firm or a credit institution authorised by the competent authority of another EEA State (including a branch established in the United Kingdom of such a firm or institution) to have access to those facilities on the same terms as a UK firm for the purposes of finalising or arranging the finalisation of transactions in financial instruments. |
(4) |
The [UK RIE] may refuse access to those facilities on legitimate commercial grounds. |
Overseas firm (other than an incoming EEA firm) |
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TC applies in respect of employees who carry on activities from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative) in the United Kingdom and TC also applies insofar as an activity is carried on from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative or, where applicable, its tied agent) in, and within the territory of, another EEA State |
TC does not apply |
TC applies in respect of employees who carry on activities from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative) in the United Kingdom |
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TC applies in respect of employees who carry on activities from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative) in the United Kingdom and TC also applies in respect of employees who engage in or oversee activities from a branch established in another EEA state |
TC does not apply |
TC does not apply |
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TC applies if the customer is resident in the United Kingdom at the time the regulated mortgage activity or reversion activity is carried on and TC also applies if the customer is resident in another EEA State (at the time that the activity is carried on) but only if the activity is carried on from an establishment maintained by the firm or its appointed representative in the United Kingdom |
Same as for UK domestic firm |
Same as for UK domestic firm |
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Any other activity in Appendix 1 |
TC applies in respect of employees who carry on these activities from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative) in the United Kingdom and TC also applies in respect of employees who carry on activities with or for a client in the United Kingdom |
TC applies in respect of its employees who carry on activities from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative) in the United Kingdom |
TC applies in respect of its employees who carry on activities from an establishment maintained by the firm (or its appointed representative) in the United Kingdom |