CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 205

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conditions governing local companies out here are not

on all fours with those prevailing at home. It is

unnecessary to criticise the ordinance section by

section, many of them being taken verbatim from the

home act, but the four following appear to me to call

for comment as indicating that the framers of the

ordinance have not been well advised on many points

of considerable importance.

Section 3:-

Paragraph 4 provides that after deducting 25%

of the total premium income and claims the balance of

premium income is to be annually deposited with the Govern-

-ment.

This affords an excellent example of the danger

of making a general and sweeping rule of thumb to be in-

-discriminately applied to all companies. An old establish-

-ed Company with a large proportion of old business on its

books and doing a small or moderate amount of new business

would experience no difficulty in depositing 75% of its

premium income, in fact a deduction of 25% for expenses

would be excessive and unnecessary and if persisted in

as the ordinance demands would probably lead to the policy

holders obtaining reduced bonuses.

On the other hand to a newly established company

or one developing rapidly i.e. with a considerably greater

proportion of new business to renewals the conditions of

this section are prohibitive and unnecessary, the actuarial

regarves of newly acquired business being nothing like

75% of the office premium, while their legitimate expenses

are proportionately greater. In this connection it may be

pointed out that the late Dr. Sprague an actuary of the

highest eminence held that the legitimate expenses of a

well conducted office should average 80% of the 1st. year's

premium and 8% of the renewals. And that a company that

even exceeded this figure in respect of its new business

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