Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Act 2017

Amendment of section 57BA of Principal Act

2. Section 57BA of the Principal Act (as inserted by section 16 of the Act of 2004) is amended by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘long-term financial service’ means—

(a) subject to paragraph (b), a financial service the duration of which is a fixed term of 5 years and one month, or more, but, notwithstanding that the aggregate term of them may be 5 years and one month (or more), there does not fall within this paragraph a series of consecutive terms in respect of a financial service’s duration (provided no individual one of them is 5 years and one month, or more, in length), or

(b) a financial service that is life assurance to which, by virtue of Regulation 4 of those Regulations, the European Communities (Life Assurance) Framework Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 360 of 1994 ) apply (not being life assurance falling within Class VII defined in the first Annex thereto) and regardless of whether the term of which life assurance is fixed at a specified calendar period or not;”.