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the business of insurance (other than life insurance) shall be

ascertained by taking the gross premiums from insurance business in

the Colony (less any premiums returned to the insured and premiums paid

on re-insurance) and deducting therefrom a reserve for unexpired risks

at the percentage adopted by the company in relation to its operations

as a whole for such risks at the end of the period of which the profits

are being ascertained, and adding thereto a reserve similarly

calculated for unexpired risks outstanding at the commencement of such

period, and from the net amount so arrived at deducting the actual

losses (less the amount recovered in respect thereof under re-insurance),

the agency expenses in the Colony, and a fair proportion of the

expenses of the head office of the company, due account being taken in

each case by set-off against such expenses of any income or profits

other than premiums.

(3) Where the Commissioner is satisfied that by reason of the

limited extent of the business transacted in the Colony by a non-

resident insurance oœpany it would be unreasonable to require the co-

pany to furnish the particulars necessary for the application of sub-

sections (1) and (2), he may, notwithstanding the provisions of those

sub-sections, permit the profits of the company to be ascertained

by reference to the proportion of the total profits and income of the

company corresponding to the proportion which its premiums from

insurance business in the Colony bear to its total premiums, or on

any other basis which appears to him to be equitable.

(4) For the purposes of this section "investment income of the

Life Insurance Fund" means, in the case of a company whose sole business

is life insurance, the whole of its income from investments, and, in

the case of any other company, such part of its income from investments

as appears fairly attributable to its life insurance business,

25.(1) Where a body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate,

carries on a club or similar institution and receives from its members

not less than half of its gross receipts on revenue account (including

entrance fees and subscriptions), it shall not be deemed to carry

business; but where less than half of its gross receipts are

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