Insurance Act, 1936

Special provisions in relation to certain foreign companies.

13.—Whenever an application has been duly made in accordance with this Act by a foreign company which is a society, association, or other body incorporated or otherwise constituted under the law of a country other than Saorstát Eireann for an assurance licence to carry on life assurance business or industrial assurance business, or whenever an assurance licence has been granted to any such company to carry on either or both of such businesses, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) any alteration in the rules or other instrument defining the constitution of such company and filed with the Registrar of Companies shall be notified to such Registrar within the prescribed time, and

(b) any notice, document or legal process may (save as may be otherwise required by or under any rules of court or an order of a court or judge) be served by being left with or sent by prepaid ordinary post to the persons resident in Saorstát Eireann at the addresses of such persons as specified by such company under this Part of this Act, and

(c) the Registrar of Companies shall, if satisfied that such company has filed with him the matters required by this Part of this Act to be so filed by it, issue a certificate under his hand certifying that such company has so filed the matters which it is so required to file, and

(d) every such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the matters stated therein and it shall not be necessary to prove the signature of the Registrar of Companies or that he was in fact such Registrar, and

(e) the Registrar of Companies shall, if required by any person and on payment to such Registrar by such person of whichever of the following fees is the lesser, that is to say, a fee of six pence for every folio of seventy-two words, or a fee of one pound, issue to such person copies (certified by such Registrar to be true copies) of any of the matters required by this Part of this Act to be filed with such Registrar by any such company and all such copies when so certified shall be prima facie evidence of the contents thereof and it shall not be necessary to prove the signature of such Registrar or that he was in fact such Registrar.