THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 2, 1907.
intervals as may be prescribed by the instrument constitut- ing such company, or by its regulations or by-laws, cause an investigation to be made into its financial condition by an actuary, and shall cause an abstract of the report of such actuary to be made in the form prescribed in the fifth Schedule to this Ordinance.
of life and
15. Every life insurance company shall, on or before Statement the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred annuity
and seven, and thereafter within nine months after the date business. of each such investigation as aforesaid into its financial con- 33 and 34 dition, prepare a statement of its life insurance and aunuity Vict. c. 61, business, in the form contained in the sixth Schedule to this s. 8. Ordinance; each of such statements to be made up as at the date of the last investigation, whether such investiga- tion be made previously or subsequently to the commence- ment of this Ordinance: Provided as follows:-
(1.) If the next financial investigation, after the commencement of this Ordinance of any life insurance company, fall during the year one thousand nine hundred and eight, the said state- ment of such life insurance company shall be prepared within nine months after the date of such investigation, instead of on or before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven.
(2.) If such investigation be made annually by any life insurance company, such life insurance company may prepare such statement at any time, so that it be made at least once in every three years.
The expression "date of each such investigation" in this section shall mean the date to which the accounts of each life insurance company are made up for the purposes of each such investigation.
16. The Governor-in-Council may alter the forms con- Forms may tained in the Schedules to this Ordinance, numbered from be altered. one to six, both inclusive, for the purpose of adapting them Tb. s. 9. to the circumstances of any life insurance company, OF of better carrying into effect the object of this part of the Ordinance.
17. Every statement or abstract hercinbefore required Statements, to be made by a life insurance company shall be signed &c., to be
signed by the principal officer thereof managing the life insurance
printed and business in Hongkong, and shall be printed; and the deposited original, so signed as aforesaid, together with three printed with the copies thereof, shall be deposited with the Registrar Registrar, within uine months of the dates respectively herein- Ib. s. 10. before prescribed as the dates at which the same are to be prepared.
And every annual statement so deposited after the first investigation after the commencement of this Ordinauce shall be accompanied by three printed copies of the abstract required to be made by section fourteen.
to be
18. The Registrar shall make an examination into each Statements statement or abstract deposited as aforesaid either alone and abstracts or with an actuary from time to time appointed by the examined by Governor-in-Council for the purpose; and the Registrar or the Registrar if an actuary be appointed then the Registrar and such and his actuary shall make such report to the Governor on such report to
be published. statement or abstract as he or they may think it, and every such report shall be published in the Gazette.
statement to
19. A printed copy of the last-deposited statement Copy of abstract or other document by this Ordinance required to be given to be printed shall be forwarded by the life insurance com- shareholders, pany, by post or otherwise, on application, to every share- go. holder and policy holder of the company,
B. s. 11.
20. Every life insurance company not registered under List of
shareholders. "The Companies Ordinance 1865 shall keep a register of shareholders in like form and containing like particulars 1b. s. 12. in the manner provided by such Ordinance and shall furnish, on application, to every shareholder and policy holder of the life insurance company, a copy of such book, on payment of a summ not exceeding fifty cents for every hundred words required to be copied for such purpose.
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