{"id":"F2008L03961","name":"Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 85 of 2008 - GRS 410.0 (2008) - Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision","slug":"financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":75714,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2008L03961-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Reporting Standard GRS 410.0 (2008)","sectionType":"part","heading":"Reporting Standard GRS 410.0 (2008)","content":"## Reporting Standard GRS 410.0 (2008)","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision","sectionType":"part","heading":"Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision","content":"# Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision\n\n### Objective of this reporting standard\n\nThis reporting standard is made under section 13 of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (the Collection of Data Act). It requires general insurers (insurers), including foreign general insurers (foreign insurers) operating in Australia through branch operations, to report to APRA, generally on an annual basis, movement in the provision for claims liabilities.\n\nThis reporting standard outlines the overall requirements for the provision of this information to APRA. It should be read in conjunction with Form GRF 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision (Form GRF 410.0) and the instructions to that form (which are attached and form part of this reporting standard).\n\n# Purpose\n\n1.  Data collected in Form GRF 410.0 is used by APRA for the purpose of prudential supervision of insurers.\n\n# Application and commencement\n\n2. This reporting standard applies to all insurers for reporting periods commencing on or after 1 July 2008.\n\n# Information required\n\n3. An insurer must provide APRA with the information required by Form GRF 410.0 for each reporting period.\n\n# Forms and method of submission\n\n4. The information required by this reporting standard must be given to APRA either:\n\n(a) in electronic form using the ‘Direct to APRA’ application, applying one of the electronic submission mechanisms under that application; or\n\n(b) by manually completing Form GRF 410.0 on paper and mailing the completed form to APRA’s head office at Level 26, 400 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales.\n\nWhere the information is submitted by means of an agent to whom the insurer has outsourced the function of providing the information on the insurer’s behalf, the agent may only provide the information in accordance with subparagraph 4(b) if the agent has contacted APRA and advised that the agent cannot submit the information in electronic form under subparagraph 4(a).\n\nNote: the Direct to APRA application software and paper forms may be obtained from APRA.\n\n# Reporting periods and due dates\n\n5. Subject to paragraph 6, an insurer must provide the information required by this reporting standard in respect of each financial year (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) of the insurer.\n\nNote: APRA proposes to determine exemptions, under section 7 of the Insurance Act 1973 (Insurance Act), from the obligations under Part IV Division 4 of the Insurance Act in respect of the auditing of information provided under this reporting standard.\n\n6. APRA may, by notice in writing, change the reporting periods, or specified reporting periods for a particular insurer to require it to provide the information:\n\n(a) more frequently (if, having regard to the particular circumstances of the insurer, APRA considers it necessary or desirable to obtain information more frequently for the purposes of the prudential supervision of the insurer); or\n\n(b) less frequently (if, having regard to the particular circumstances of the insurer and the extent to which it requires prudential supervision, APRA considers it unnecessary to require the insurer to provide the information as frequently as provided by paragraph 5).\n\n7. The information required by paragraph 3 of this reporting standard must be provided to APRA 4 months after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates.\n\n8. APRA may grant an insurer an extension of a due date in writing, in which case the new due date for the provision of the information will be the date on the notice of extension.\n\n# Authorisation\n\n9. The information provided by an insurer under this reporting standard must be subject to processes and controls developed by the insurer for the internal review and authorisation of that information. It is the responsibility of the board and senior management of the insurer to ensure that an appropriate set of policies and procedures for the authorisation of data submitted to APRA is in place.\n\n10. If the officer of an insurer provides the information required by this reporting standard:\n\n(a) under subparagraph 4(a), the officer must digitally sign, authorise and encrypt the information (for which purpose APRA’s certificate authority will issue digital certificates, for use with the ‘Direct to APRA’ application, to officers of the insurer who have authority from the insurer to transmit data to APRA); or\n\n(b) under subparagraph 4(b), the completed form must be signed in accordance with paragraph 12.\n\n11. If an insurer provides the information required by this reporting standard through an agent under either subparagraphs 4(a) or (b), the agent will not be required to sign or authorise the information. However, the insurer must:\n\n(a) obtain from the agent a paper copy of the completed form as provided to APRA (whether it was provided under subparagraph 4(a) or (b)); and\n\n(b) cause the paper copy to be signed in accordance with paragraph 12; and\n\n(c) lodge the signed paper copy with APRA by mailing the completed form to APRA’s head office at Level 26, 400 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, by the relevant due date (unless APRA, in writing, waives the requirement to lodge the signed paper copy with APRA by varying this reporting standard in relation to the insurer).\n\nNote: APRA may, for example, determine to waive the requirement under subparagraph 11(c) where an insurer has undertaken to retain the signed copy of the completed form for an agreed period of time.\n\n12. If information under this reporting standard is provided in paper form, it must be signed on the front page of the relevant completed form by either:\n\n(a) the Principal Executive Officer of the insurer; or\n\n(b) the Chief Financial Officer of the insurer (whatever his or her official title may be).\n\n# Minor alterations to forms and instructions\n\n13. APRA may make minor variations to the instructions, to clarify their application to the form without changing any substantive requirement in the form or instructions.\n\n14. If APRA makes such a variation it must notify insurers in writing.\n\n> Transition\n\n15. An insurer must report in relation to a reporting period ending prior to 1 July 2008 in accordance with the reporting standard that this reporting standard replaced.\n\nInterpretation\n\n16. In this reporting standard:\n\nappointed auditor means an auditor appointed under paragraph 39(1)(a) of the Insurance Act;\n\ncapital standards means the prudential standards which relate to capital adequacy as defined in Prudential Standard GPS 001 Definitions;\n\nforeign insurer means a foreign general insurer within the meaning of the Insurance Act;\n\nNote: A reference to a ‘branch’ or ‘branch operation’ is a reference to the Australian operations of a foreign insurer.\n\nInsurance Act means the Insurance Act 1973;\n\ninsurer means a general insurer within the meaning of the Insurance Act;\n\nNote: In the forms and instructions, a reference to an ‘authorised insurer’, ‘authorised insurance entity’ or ‘licensed insurer’ is a reference to an insurer, and a reference to an ‘authorised reinsurance entity’ is a reference to an insurer whose business consists only of undertaking liability by way of reinsurance.\n\nPrincipal Executive Officer means the principal executive officer of the insurer for the time being, by whatever name called, and whether or not he or she is a member of the governing board of the insurer;\n\nreporting period means a period mentioned in paragraph 5 or, if applicable, paragraph 6.\n\n17. A reference to a prudential standard means the prudential standard, made under section 32 of the Insurance Act, mentioned in the reference, as amended from time to time. If the prudential standard has been revoked and replaced, the reference shall be taken to be to the prudential standard that has replaced it.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Objective of this reporting standard","sectionType":"division","heading":"Objective of this reporting standard","content":"### Objective of this reporting standard\n\nThis reporting standard is made under section 13 of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (the Collection of Data Act). It requires general insurers (insurers), including foreign general insurers (foreign insurers) operating in Australia through branch operations, to report to APRA, generally on an annual basis, movement in the provision for claims liabilities.\n\nThis reporting standard outlines the overall requirements for the provision of this information to APRA. It should be read in conjunction with Form GRF 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision (Form GRF 410.0) and the instructions to that form (which are attached and form part of this reporting standard).","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Purpose","sectionType":"part","heading":"Purpose","content":"# Purpose\n\n1.  Data collected in Form GRF 410.0 is used by APRA for the purpose of prudential supervision of insurers.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"Application and commencement","sectionType":"part","heading":"Application and commencement","content":"# Application and commencement\n\n2. This reporting standard applies to all insurers for reporting periods commencing on or after 1 July 2008.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Information required","sectionType":"part","heading":"Information required","content":"# Information required\n\n3. An insurer must provide APRA with the information required by Form GRF 410.0 for each reporting period.","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Forms and method of submission","sectionType":"part","heading":"Forms and method of submission","content":"# Forms and method of submission\n\n4. The information required by this reporting standard must be given to APRA either:\n\n(a) in electronic form using the ‘Direct to APRA’ application, applying one of the electronic submission mechanisms under that application; or\n\n(b) by manually completing Form GRF 410.0 on paper and mailing the completed form to APRA’s head office at Level 26, 400 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales.\n\nWhere the information is submitted by means of an agent to whom the insurer has outsourced the function of providing the information on the insurer’s behalf, the agent may only provide the information in accordance with subparagraph 4(b) if the agent has contacted APRA and advised that the agent cannot submit the information in electronic form under subparagraph 4(a).\n\nNote: the Direct to APRA application software and paper forms may be obtained from APRA.","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"Reporting periods and due dates","sectionType":"part","heading":"Reporting periods and due dates","content":"# Reporting periods and due dates\n\n5. Subject to paragraph 6, an insurer must provide the information required by this reporting standard in respect of each financial year (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) of the insurer.\n\nNote: APRA proposes to determine exemptions, under section 7 of the Insurance Act 1973 (Insurance Act), from the obligations under Part IV Division 4 of the Insurance Act in respect of the auditing of information provided under this reporting standard.\n\n6. APRA may, by notice in writing, change the reporting periods, or specified reporting periods for a particular insurer to require it to provide the information:\n\n(a) more frequently (if, having regard to the particular circumstances of the insurer, APRA considers it necessary or desirable to obtain information more frequently for the purposes of the prudential supervision of the insurer); or\n\n(b) less frequently (if, having regard to the particular circumstances of the insurer and the extent to which it requires prudential supervision, APRA considers it unnecessary to require the insurer to provide the information as frequently as provided by paragraph 5).\n\n7. The information required by paragraph 3 of this reporting standard must be provided to APRA 4 months after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates.\n\n8. APRA may grant an insurer an extension of a due date in writing, in which case the new due date for the provision of the information will be the date on the notice of extension.","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"Authorisation","sectionType":"part","heading":"Authorisation","content":"# Authorisation\n\n9. The information provided by an insurer under this reporting standard must be subject to processes and controls developed by the insurer for the internal review and authorisation of that information. It is the responsibility of the board and senior management of the insurer to ensure that an appropriate set of policies and procedures for the authorisation of data submitted to APRA is in place.\n\n10. If the officer of an insurer provides the information required by this reporting standard:\n\n(a) under subparagraph 4(a), the officer must digitally sign, authorise and encrypt the information (for which purpose APRA’s certificate authority will issue digital certificates, for use with the ‘Direct to APRA’ application, to officers of the insurer who have authority from the insurer to transmit data to APRA); or\n\n(b) under subparagraph 4(b), the completed form must be signed in accordance with paragraph 12.\n\n11. If an insurer provides the information required by this reporting standard through an agent under either subparagraphs 4(a) or (b), the agent will not be required to sign or authorise the information. However, the insurer must:\n\n(a) obtain from the agent a paper copy of the completed form as provided to APRA (whether it was provided under subparagraph 4(a) or (b)); and\n\n(b) cause the paper copy to be signed in accordance with paragraph 12; and\n\n(c) lodge the signed paper copy with APRA by mailing the completed form to APRA’s head office at Level 26, 400 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, by the relevant due date (unless APRA, in writing, waives the requirement to lodge the signed paper copy with APRA by varying this reporting standard in relation to the insurer).\n\nNote: APRA may, for example, determine to waive the requirement under subparagraph 11(c) where an insurer has undertaken to retain the signed copy of the completed form for an agreed period of time.\n\n12. If information under this reporting standard is provided in paper form, it must be signed on the front page of the relevant completed form by either:\n\n(a) the Principal Executive Officer of the insurer; or\n\n(b) the Chief Financial Officer of the insurer (whatever his or her official title may be).","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"Minor alterations to forms and instructi","sectionType":"part","heading":"Minor alterations to forms and instructions","content":"# Minor alterations to forms and instructions\n\n13. APRA may make minor variations to the instructions, to clarify their application to the form without changing any substantive requirement in the form or instructions.\n\n14. If APRA makes such a variation it must notify insurers in writing.\n\n> Transition\n\n15. An insurer must report in relation to a reporting period ending prior to 1 July 2008 in accordance with the reporting standard that this reporting standard replaced.\n\nInterpretation\n\n16. In this reporting standard:\n\nappointed auditor means an auditor appointed under paragraph 39(1)(a) of the Insurance Act;\n\ncapital standards means the prudential standards which relate to capital adequacy as defined in Prudential Standard GPS 001 Definitions;\n\nforeign insurer means a foreign general insurer within the meaning of the Insurance Act;\n\nNote: A reference to a ‘branch’ or ‘branch operation’ is a reference to the Australian operations of a foreign insurer.\n\nInsurance Act means the Insurance Act 1973;\n\ninsurer means a general insurer within the meaning of the Insurance Act;\n\nNote: In the forms and instructions, a reference to an ‘authorised insurer’, ‘authorised insurance entity’ or ‘licensed insurer’ is a reference to an insurer, and a reference to an ‘authorised reinsurance entity’ is a reference to an insurer whose business consists only of undertaking liability by way of reinsurance.\n\nPrincipal Executive Officer means the principal executive officer of the insurer for the time being, by whatever name called, and whether or not he or she is a member of the governing board of the insurer;\n\nreporting period means a period mentioned in paragraph 5 or, if applicable, paragraph 6.\n\n17. A reference to a prudential standard means the prudential standard, made under section 32 of the Insurance Act, mentioned in the reference, as amended from time to time. If the prudential standard has been revoked and replaced, the reference shall be taken to be to the prudential standard that has replaced it.","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"Reporting Form GRF 410.0","sectionType":"part","heading":"Reporting Form GRF 410.0","content":"## Reporting Form GRF 410.0\n\n## Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision\n\n### Instruction Guide\n\n#### Introduction\n\nThe purpose of this form is to provide information on the following:\n\n1.  Balance of the outstanding claims provision by class of business (direct business and reinsurance). This can be disclosed net of reinsurance and non reinsurance recoveries;\n2.  Reserves/Provisions that have been released by class of business (direct business and reinsurance);\n3.  Additions/increments in the provisions by class of business (direct business and reinsurance).\n\nFor insurers writing direct insurance business - for each of the following accident years:\n\n-   current accident year\n-   accident year 1-3 years previous\n-   accident year 4-5 years previous\n-   accident year greater than 5 years previous\n\nFor insurers writing reinsurance business – for each of the following underwriting years:\n\n-   current underwriting year\n-   underwriting year 1-3 years previous\n-   underwriting year 4-5 years previous\n-   underwriting year greater than 5 years previous\n\n## This instruction guide is designed to assist in the completion of GRF 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision and provides general directions for preparation and lodgment and explanatory notes for specific items.\n\nAudit requirements\n\nThe information provided under the form is not required to be audited and has been exempted from the definition of ‘yearly statutory accounts’.  \nReporting entities\n\nForms are to be completed for the following reporting entities where appropriate:\n\n1.  Branch operations of a foreign parent insurer (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the branch, excluding the parent operations);\n2.  Authorised insurance entities, including mutual entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity); and\n3.  Authorised reinsurance entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity).\n\nUnit of measurement\n\nThis form is to be presented in Australian currency, rounded to thousands of dollars, with no decimal place.\n\nAmounts denominated in foreign currency are to be converted to AUD in accordance with AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nThe general requirements of AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’ for translation are:\n\n1.  Foreign currency monetary items[\\[1\\]](#_ftn1) outstanding at the reporting date must be translated at the spot rate[\\[2\\]](#_ftn2) at the reporting date.\n2.  Foreign currency non-monetary items[\\[3\\]](#_ftn3) that are measured at historical cost in a foreign currency must be translated using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction.\n3.  Foreign currency non-monetary items that are measured at fair value will be translated at the exchange rate at the date when fair value was determined.\n\nTransactions arising under foreign currency derivative contracts at the reporting date must be prepared in accordance with AASB 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’. However, those foreign currency derivatives that are not within the scope of AASB 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’ (eg some foreign currency derivatives that are embedded in other contracts) remain within the scope of AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nFor APRA purposes equity items must be translated using the foreign currency exchange rate at the date of investment or acquisition. Post acquisition changes in equity are required to be translated on the date of the movement.\n\nAs foreign currency derivatives are measured at fair value, the currency derivative contracts are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date.\n\nExchange differences should be recognised in profit and loss in the period which they arise. For foreign currency derivatives, the exchange differences would be recognised immediately in profit and loss if the hedging instrument is a fair value hedge. For derivatives used in a cash flow hedge, the exchange differences should be recognised directly in equity.\n\nThe ineffective portion of the exchange differences in all hedges would be recognised in profit and loss.\n\n4. Translation of financial reports of foreign operations.\n\nA foreign operation is defined in AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’ as meaning an entity that is a subsidiary, associate, joint venture or branch of a reporting entity, the activities of which are based or conducted in a country or currency other than those of the reporting entity.\n\n-   Exchange differences relating to foreign currency monetary items that form part of the net investment of an entity in a foreign operation, must be recognised as a separate component of equity.\n-   Translation of financial reports should otherwise follow the requirements in AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nReporting period\n\nInsurers are required to report the information in the reporting form on an annual basis.\n\n-   The annual information is to be completed in respect of the financial year of the insurer.\n-   The financial information requested in this form is to be reported as at the last day of the reporting period on a financial year to date basis of the insurer.\n\n## Reporting lag\n\nThis form must be lodged for each of the reporting units, within the number of business days after the end of the quarter as set out in Reporting Standard GRS 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision.\n\n###   \nSpecific instructions\n\nClasses of Insurance Business\n\n1.  Direct Business\n\nThe classes of business for companies that are not specialist reinsurers are as follows:\n\n(I). Houseowners/Householders (H & H)\n\nThis class covers the common H & H policies inclusive of:\n\n-   Contents;\n-   Personal property;\n-   Arson; and\n-   Burglary.\n\nPublic liability normally attaching to these products are to be separated and included in Public and Product Liability class of business – item XIII.\n\n(II). Commercial Motor Vehicle\n\nMotor vehicle insurance (including third party property damage) other than insurance covering vehicles defined below under Domestic Motor Vehicle. It includes long and medium haul trucks, cranes and special vehicles, and policies covering fleets.\n\n(III). Domestic Motor Vehicle\n\nMotor vehicle insurance (including third party property damage) covering private use motor vehicles including utilities and lorries, motor cycles, private caravans, box and boat trailers and other vehicles not normally covered by business or commercial policies.\n\n(IV). Travel\n\nInsurance against losses associated with travel including loss of baggage and personal effects, losses on flight cancellations and overseas medical costs.\n\n(V). Fire and Industrial Special Risks (ISR)\n\n##### Fire\n\nIncludes all policies normally classified as 'Fire' and includes:\n\n-   sprinkler leakage;\n-   subsidence;\n-   windstorm;\n-   hailstone;\n-   crop;\n-   arson; and\n-   loss of profits and any extraneous risk normally covered under fire policies, e.g. flood.\n\nISR\n\nStandard policy wordings exist for this type of policy. All policies which contain such standard wordings or where the wording is substantially similar are to be classified as ISR.\n\n(VI). Marine\n\nIncludes Marine Hull (including pleasure craft) and Marine Cargo (including sea and inland transit insurance).\n\n(VII). Aviation\n\nAviation (including aircraft hull and aircraft liability).\n\n(VIII). Mortgage\n\nInsurance against losses arising from the failure of debtors to meet financial obligations to creditors or under which payment of debts is guaranteed. It includes lease guarantee.\n\n(IX). Consumer Credit (CCI)\n\nInsurance to protect a consumer's ability to meet the loan repayments on personal loans and credit card finance in the event of death or loss of income due to injury, illness or unemployment.\n\n(X). Other Accident\n\nIncludes the following types of insurance:\n\n-   Miscellaneous accident (involving cash in transit, theft, loss of money);\n-   All risks (baggage, sporting equipment, guns);\n-   Engineering when not part of ISR or Fire policy;\n-   Plate glass when not part of packaged policy (e.g. houseowners /householders)\n-   Guarantee (Insurance Bonds);\n-   Live Stock;\n-   Pluvius; and\n-   Sickness and Accident (which provides stated benefits where the insured is killed or suffers loss of specific parts of the body or is prevented from carrying out the insured’s normal occupation. In addition, regular benefits may be paid over a short period of time (typically less than 3 years), noting that continuous disability policies are now considered to be Life Insurance Policies and should not be provided by general insurance companies).\n\n(XI). Other\n\nAll other insurance business not specifically mentioned elsewhere. It includes, for example:\n\n-   All guarantees (e.g. fidelity Guarantee)\n-   Trade Credit;\n-   Extended Warranty (includes insurance by a third party for a period in excess of the manufacturer's or seller’s normal warranty);\n-   Kidnap and Ransom; and\n-   Contingency.\n\n(XII). Compulsory Third Party Motor Vehicle (CTP)\n\nThis class consists only of CTP business.\n\n(XIII). Public and Product Liability\n\n-   Public Liability covers legal liability to the public in respect of bodily injury or property damage arising out of the operation of the insured's business. Product Liability includes policies that provide for compensation for loss and or injury caused by, or as a result of, the use of goods and also environmental clean-up caused by pollution spills where not covered by Fire and ISR policies.\n-   Also will include builders warranty insurance.\n-   Includes public liability attaching to houseowners/householders policies.\n\n(XIV). Professional Indemnity (PI)\n\nIncludes Directors' and Officers' liability insurance plus legal expense insurance. Cover for legal expenses is generally included in this type of policy.\n\n(XV). Employers' Liability (EL)\n\nIncludes:\n\n-   Workers' compensation;\n-   Seamen's compensation; and\n-   Domestic workers compensation.\n\n2. Reinsurance Business\n\nThe classes of business for companies that provide reinsurance are as follows:\n\nTreaty Proportional: This refers to all forms of quota share and surplus reinsurance written on a treaty reinsurance arrangement where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured subject to the terms and conditions of the pre-agreed treaty wording, and shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.\n\nTreaty Excess of Loss: This refers to all reinsurance arrangements where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured and the reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.\n\nFacultative Proportional: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis and the reinsurer shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.\n\nFacultative Excess of Loss: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis. The reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.\n\nReinsurance non-split\n\nThis line item classification disclosed under Reinsurance class of business is to be used where it is not possible for the insurer to separately slit out all the classes of reinsurance businesses. However as required by GPS 115 Capital Adequacy: Insurance Risk Capital Charge (GPS 115), where an insurer writes inwards reinsurance business and is unable to split this business into the classes and types listed, they are to use the highest casualty factors on their outstanding claims liabilities.\n\nWhere an insurer writes inwards reinsurance which spans multiple classes and the insurer cannot readily split the contract between classes, APRA suggests that the contract should be allocated using one of the following methods:\n\n(a) allocate the contract to the category which represents the greatest exposure; or\n\n(b) allocate the contract to the category representing the greatest premium income.\n\nAn insurer that writes inwards reinsurance is free to choose which of the above methods it uses, or may use another appropriate method, provided the same method is used for all contracts and all subsequent periods.\n\n###### Outstanding Claims Provision net of RI Recoveries (undiscounted)\n\nThe Outstanding Claims Provision is to be disclosed by type of business (direct business and inward reinsurance business), net of reinsurance and non reinsurance recoveries, as at the reporting date.\n\nThe Outstanding Claims Provision relates to the liability provision that has been recognised by the insurer in GRF 300.0 Statement of Financial Position, however for the purposes of this form, the Outstanding Claims Provision must be undiscounted.\n\nFor the purposes of this form the total of the OCP for the current financial year (on an undiscounted basis) is to be allocated across the respective time buckets specified on the form. Accordingly, each year that this form is completed the OCP that is recorded for the respective time buckets will likely change as this is reassessed.\n\nFor the “Direct business” and “Reinsurance” business, amounts are to include all Outstanding Claims Provisions associated with:\n\n-   the insurance business written directly by the insurer;\n-   reinsurance business under the “Reinsurance” section of Type of Business column. Inward reinsurance includes amounts, which relate to inward facultative reinsurance and to inward treaty reinsurance.\n-   business sourced through underwriting pools or Joint Ventures, or portfolio transfers/acquisitions.\n\nAccident Year\n\nDirect writers of insurance business are to complete this form based on accident year. This refers to the financial year that the losses/claims associated with individual policies are incurred.\n\nUnderwriting Year\n\nInsurers writing reinsurance business are to complete this form based on accident year. This refers to the financial year of the insurer in which the policy incepts, regardless of when the premiums and claims are actually reported, booked or paid. For example, the 2005 underwriting year for an insurer with a 30 June balance date includes premiums and claims (both paid and outstanding) relating to policies incepting in the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. For an insurer with a 31 December balance date, the 2005 underwriting year includes premiums and claims (both paid and outstanding) relating to policies incepting in the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005.\n\nReserve Release\n\nReserve release refers the occasions when a provision was created/posted for a particular prior financial year and subsequently it is found that this provision will be more than is required to pay for the losses associated with this particular accident year for direct writers of insurance and underwriting year for reinsurance writers. In these instances the insurer releases these excess provisions and they become profits in the current financial year of the insurer.\n\nClaim payments (that are debited out of the outstanding claims provision for accounting purposes) are not to be classified as a reserve release for the purposes of this form.\n\nReserve Strengthening\n\nReserve strengthening refers the occasions when a provision has been created/posted for a particular prior financial year and subsequently it is found that this provision will be insufficient to pay for the losses associated with this particular accident year for direct writers of insurance and underwriting year for reinsurance writers. In these instances the insurer strengthens or increases these provisions in the current financial year by adding additional provisions to accommodate the losses associated with this particular prior accident year and this becomes a reduction in profit (i.e. claims expense in profit and loss in the current financial year).","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"Instruction Guide","sectionType":"division","heading":"Instruction Guide","content":"## Reporting Form GRF 410.0\n\n## Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision\n\n### Instruction Guide\n\n#### Introduction\n\nThe purpose of this form is to provide information on the following:\n\n1.  Balance of the outstanding claims provision by class of business (direct business and reinsurance). This can be disclosed net of reinsurance and non reinsurance recoveries;\n2.  Reserves/Provisions that have been released by class of business (direct business and reinsurance);\n3.  Additions/increments in the provisions by class of business (direct business and reinsurance).\n\nFor insurers writing direct insurance business - for each of the following accident years:\n\n-   current accident year\n-   accident year 1-3 years previous\n-   accident year 4-5 years previous\n-   accident year greater than 5 years previous\n\nFor insurers writing reinsurance business – for each of the following underwriting years:\n\n-   current underwriting year\n-   underwriting year 1-3 years previous\n-   underwriting year 4-5 years previous\n-   underwriting year greater than 5 years previous\n\n## This instruction guide is designed to assist in the completion of GRF 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision and provides general directions for preparation and lodgment and explanatory notes for specific items.\n\nAudit requirements\n\nThe information provided under the form is not required to be audited and has been exempted from the definition of ‘yearly statutory accounts’.  \nReporting entities\n\nForms are to be completed for the following reporting entities where appropriate:\n\n1.  Branch operations of a foreign parent insurer (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the branch, excluding the parent operations);\n2.  Authorised insurance entities, including mutual entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity); and\n3.  Authorised reinsurance entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity).\n\nUnit of measurement\n\nThis form is to be presented in Australian currency, rounded to thousands of dollars, with no decimal place.\n\nAmounts denominated in foreign currency are to be converted to AUD in accordance with AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nThe general requirements of AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’ for translation are:\n\n1.  Foreign currency monetary items[\\[1\\]](#_ftn1) outstanding at the reporting date must be translated at the spot rate[\\[2\\]](#_ftn2) at the reporting date.\n2.  Foreign currency non-monetary items[\\[3\\]](#_ftn3) that are measured at historical cost in a foreign currency must be translated using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction.\n3.  Foreign currency non-monetary items that are measured at fair value will be translated at the exchange rate at the date when fair value was determined.\n\nTransactions arising under foreign currency derivative contracts at the reporting date must be prepared in accordance with AASB 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’. However, those foreign currency derivatives that are not within the scope of AASB 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’ (eg some foreign currency derivatives that are embedded in other contracts) remain within the scope of AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nFor APRA purposes equity items must be translated using the foreign currency exchange rate at the date of investment or acquisition. Post acquisition changes in equity are required to be translated on the date of the movement.\n\nAs foreign currency derivatives are measured at fair value, the currency derivative contracts are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date.\n\nExchange differences should be recognised in profit and loss in the period which they arise. For foreign currency derivatives, the exchange differences would be recognised immediately in profit and loss if the hedging instrument is a fair value hedge. For derivatives used in a cash flow hedge, the exchange differences should be recognised directly in equity.\n\nThe ineffective portion of the exchange differences in all hedges would be recognised in profit and loss.\n\n4. Translation of financial reports of foreign operations.\n\nA foreign operation is defined in AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’ as meaning an entity that is a subsidiary, associate, joint venture or branch of a reporting entity, the activities of which are based or conducted in a country or currency other than those of the reporting entity.\n\n-   Exchange differences relating to foreign currency monetary items that form part of the net investment of an entity in a foreign operation, must be recognised as a separate component of equity.\n-   Translation of financial reports should otherwise follow the requirements in AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nReporting period\n\nInsurers are required to report the information in the reporting form on an annual basis.\n\n-   The annual information is to be completed in respect of the financial year of the insurer.\n-   The financial information requested in this form is to be reported as at the last day of the reporting period on a financial year to date basis of the insurer.\n\n## Reporting lag\n\nThis form must be lodged for each of the reporting units, within the number of business days after the end of the quarter as set out in Reporting Standard GRS 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision.\n\n###   \nSpecific instructions\n\nClasses of Insurance Business\n\n1.  Direct Business\n\nThe classes of business for companies that are not specialist reinsurers are as follows:\n\n(I). Houseowners/Householders (H & H)\n\nThis class covers the common H & H policies inclusive of:\n\n-   Contents;\n-   Personal property;\n-   Arson; and\n-   Burglary.\n\nPublic liability normally attaching to these products are to be separated and included in Public and Product Liability class of business – item XIII.\n\n(II). Commercial Motor Vehicle\n\nMotor vehicle insurance (including third party property damage) other than insurance covering vehicles defined below under Domestic Motor Vehicle. It includes long and medium haul trucks, cranes and special vehicles, and policies covering fleets.\n\n(III). Domestic Motor Vehicle\n\nMotor vehicle insurance (including third party property damage) covering private use motor vehicles including utilities and lorries, motor cycles, private caravans, box and boat trailers and other vehicles not normally covered by business or commercial policies.\n\n(IV). Travel\n\nInsurance against losses associated with travel including loss of baggage and personal effects, losses on flight cancellations and overseas medical costs.\n\n(V). Fire and Industrial Special Risks (ISR)\n\n##### Fire\n\nIncludes all policies normally classified as 'Fire' and includes:\n\n-   sprinkler leakage;\n-   subsidence;\n-   windstorm;\n-   hailstone;\n-   crop;\n-   arson; and\n-   loss of profits and any extraneous risk normally covered under fire policies, e.g. flood.\n\nISR\n\nStandard policy wordings exist for this type of policy. All policies which contain such standard wordings or where the wording is substantially similar are to be classified as ISR.\n\n(VI). Marine\n\nIncludes Marine Hull (including pleasure craft) and Marine Cargo (including sea and inland transit insurance).\n\n(VII). Aviation\n\nAviation (including aircraft hull and aircraft liability).\n\n(VIII). Mortgage\n\nInsurance against losses arising from the failure of debtors to meet financial obligations to creditors or under which payment of debts is guaranteed. It includes lease guarantee.\n\n(IX). Consumer Credit (CCI)\n\nInsurance to protect a consumer's ability to meet the loan repayments on personal loans and credit card finance in the event of death or loss of income due to injury, illness or unemployment.\n\n(X). Other Accident\n\nIncludes the following types of insurance:\n\n-   Miscellaneous accident (involving cash in transit, theft, loss of money);\n-   All risks (baggage, sporting equipment, guns);\n-   Engineering when not part of ISR or Fire policy;\n-   Plate glass when not part of packaged policy (e.g. houseowners /householders)\n-   Guarantee (Insurance Bonds);\n-   Live Stock;\n-   Pluvius; and\n-   Sickness and Accident (which provides stated benefits where the insured is killed or suffers loss of specific parts of the body or is prevented from carrying out the insured’s normal occupation. In addition, regular benefits may be paid over a short period of time (typically less than 3 years), noting that continuous disability policies are now considered to be Life Insurance Policies and should not be provided by general insurance companies).\n\n(XI). Other\n\nAll other insurance business not specifically mentioned elsewhere. It includes, for example:\n\n-   All guarantees (e.g. fidelity Guarantee)\n-   Trade Credit;\n-   Extended Warranty (includes insurance by a third party for a period in excess of the manufacturer's or seller’s normal warranty);\n-   Kidnap and Ransom; and\n-   Contingency.\n\n(XII). Compulsory Third Party Motor Vehicle (CTP)\n\nThis class consists only of CTP business.\n\n(XIII). Public and Product Liability\n\n-   Public Liability covers legal liability to the public in respect of bodily injury or property damage arising out of the operation of the insured's business. Product Liability includes policies that provide for compensation for loss and or injury caused by, or as a result of, the use of goods and also environmental clean-up caused by pollution spills where not covered by Fire and ISR policies.\n-   Also will include builders warranty insurance.\n-   Includes public liability attaching to houseowners/householders policies.\n\n(XIV). Professional Indemnity (PI)\n\nIncludes Directors' and Officers' liability insurance plus legal expense insurance. Cover for legal expenses is generally included in this type of policy.\n\n(XV). Employers' Liability (EL)\n\nIncludes:\n\n-   Workers' compensation;\n-   Seamen's compensation; and\n-   Domestic workers compensation.\n\n2. Reinsurance Business\n\nThe classes of business for companies that provide reinsurance are as follows:\n\nTreaty Proportional: This refers to all forms of quota share and surplus reinsurance written on a treaty reinsurance arrangement where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured subject to the terms and conditions of the pre-agreed treaty wording, and shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.\n\nTreaty Excess of Loss: This refers to all reinsurance arrangements where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured and the reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.\n\nFacultative Proportional: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis and the reinsurer shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.\n\nFacultative Excess of Loss: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis. The reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.\n\nReinsurance non-split\n\nThis line item classification disclosed under Reinsurance class of business is to be used where it is not possible for the insurer to separately slit out all the classes of reinsurance businesses. However as required by GPS 115 Capital Adequacy: Insurance Risk Capital Charge (GPS 115), where an insurer writes inwards reinsurance business and is unable to split this business into the classes and types listed, they are to use the highest casualty factors on their outstanding claims liabilities.\n\nWhere an insurer writes inwards reinsurance which spans multiple classes and the insurer cannot readily split the contract between classes, APRA suggests that the contract should be allocated using one of the following methods:\n\n(a) allocate the contract to the category which represents the greatest exposure; or\n\n(b) allocate the contract to the category representing the greatest premium income.\n\nAn insurer that writes inwards reinsurance is free to choose which of the above methods it uses, or may use another appropriate method, provided the same method is used for all contracts and all subsequent periods.\n\n###### Outstanding Claims Provision net of RI Recoveries (undiscounted)\n\nThe Outstanding Claims Provision is to be disclosed by type of business (direct business and inward reinsurance business), net of reinsurance and non reinsurance recoveries, as at the reporting date.\n\nThe Outstanding Claims Provision relates to the liability provision that has been recognised by the insurer in GRF 300.0 Statement of Financial Position, however for the purposes of this form, the Outstanding Claims Provision must be undiscounted.\n\nFor the purposes of this form the total of the OCP for the current financial year (on an undiscounted basis) is to be allocated across the respective time buckets specified on the form. Accordingly, each year that this form is completed the OCP that is recorded for the respective time buckets will likely change as this is reassessed.\n\nFor the “Direct business” and “Reinsurance” business, amounts are to include all Outstanding Claims Provisions associated with:\n\n-   the insurance business written directly by the insurer;\n-   reinsurance business under the “Reinsurance” section of Type of Business column. Inward reinsurance includes amounts, which relate to inward facultative reinsurance and to inward treaty reinsurance.\n-   business sourced through underwriting pools or Joint Ventures, or portfolio transfers/acquisitions.\n\nAccident Year\n\nDirect writers of insurance business are to complete this form based on accident year. This refers to the financial year that the losses/claims associated with individual policies are incurred.\n\nUnderwriting Year\n\nInsurers writing reinsurance business are to complete this form based on accident year. This refers to the financial year of the insurer in which the policy incepts, regardless of when the premiums and claims are actually reported, booked or paid. For example, the 2005 underwriting year for an insurer with a 30 June balance date includes premiums and claims (both paid and outstanding) relating to policies incepting in the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. For an insurer with a 31 December balance date, the 2005 underwriting year includes premiums and claims (both paid and outstanding) relating to policies incepting in the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005.\n\nReserve Release\n\nReserve release refers the occasions when a provision was created/posted for a particular prior financial year and subsequently it is found that this provision will be more than is required to pay for the losses associated with this particular accident year for direct writers of insurance and underwriting year for reinsurance writers. In these instances the insurer releases these excess provisions and they become profits in the current financial year of the insurer.\n\nClaim payments (that are debited out of the outstanding claims provision for accounting purposes) are not to be classified as a reserve release for the purposes of this form.\n\nReserve Strengthening\n\nReserve strengthening refers the occasions when a provision has been created/posted for a particular prior financial year and subsequently it is found that this provision will be insufficient to pay for the losses associated with this particular accident year for direct writers of insurance and underwriting year for reinsurance writers. In these instances the insurer strengthens or increases these provisions in the current financial year by adding additional provisions to accommodate the losses associated with this particular prior accident year and this becomes a reduction in profit (i.e. claims expense in profit and loss in the current financial year).","sortOrder":12},{"sectionNumber":"Introduction","sectionType":"subdivision","heading":"Introduction","content":"#### Introduction\n\nThe purpose of this form is to provide information on the following:\n\n1.  Balance of the outstanding claims provision by class of business (direct business and reinsurance). This can be disclosed net of reinsurance and non reinsurance recoveries;\n2.  Reserves/Provisions that have been released by class of business (direct business and reinsurance);\n3.  Additions/increments in the provisions by class of business (direct business and reinsurance).\n\nFor insurers writing direct insurance business - for each of the following accident years:\n\n-   current accident year\n-   accident year 1-3 years previous\n-   accident year 4-5 years previous\n-   accident year greater than 5 years previous\n\nFor insurers writing reinsurance business – for each of the following underwriting years:\n\n-   current underwriting year\n-   underwriting year 1-3 years previous\n-   underwriting year 4-5 years previous\n-   underwriting year greater than 5 years previous","sortOrder":13},{"sectionNumber":"This instruction guide is designed to as","sectionType":"part","heading":"This instruction guide is designed to assist in the completion of GRF 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision and provides general directions for preparation and lodgment and explanatory notes for specific items.","content":"## This instruction guide is designed to assist in the completion of GRF 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision and provides general directions for preparation and lodgment and explanatory notes for specific items.\n\nAudit requirements\n\nThe information provided under the form is not required to be audited and has been exempted from the definition of ‘yearly statutory accounts’.  \nReporting entities\n\nForms are to be completed for the following reporting entities where appropriate:\n\n1.  Branch operations of a foreign parent insurer (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the branch, excluding the parent operations);\n2.  Authorised insurance entities, including mutual entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity); and\n3.  Authorised reinsurance entities (reference to licensed insurer in the form means total operations of the licensed entity).\n\nUnit of measurement\n\nThis form is to be presented in Australian currency, rounded to thousands of dollars, with no decimal place.\n\nAmounts denominated in foreign currency are to be converted to AUD in accordance with AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nThe general requirements of AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’ for translation are:\n\n1.  Foreign currency monetary items[\\[1\\]](#_ftn1) outstanding at the reporting date must be translated at the spot rate[\\[2\\]](#_ftn2) at the reporting date.\n2.  Foreign currency non-monetary items[\\[3\\]](#_ftn3) that are measured at historical cost in a foreign currency must be translated using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction.\n3.  Foreign currency non-monetary items that are measured at fair value will be translated at the exchange rate at the date when fair value was determined.\n\nTransactions arising under foreign currency derivative contracts at the reporting date must be prepared in accordance with AASB 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’. However, those foreign currency derivatives that are not within the scope of AASB 139 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’ (eg some foreign currency derivatives that are embedded in other contracts) remain within the scope of AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nFor APRA purposes equity items must be translated using the foreign currency exchange rate at the date of investment or acquisition. Post acquisition changes in equity are required to be translated on the date of the movement.\n\nAs foreign currency derivatives are measured at fair value, the currency derivative contracts are translated at the spot rate at the reporting date.\n\nExchange differences should be recognised in profit and loss in the period which they arise. For foreign currency derivatives, the exchange differences would be recognised immediately in profit and loss if the hedging instrument is a fair value hedge. For derivatives used in a cash flow hedge, the exchange differences should be recognised directly in equity.\n\nThe ineffective portion of the exchange differences in all hedges would be recognised in profit and loss.\n\n4. Translation of financial reports of foreign operations.\n\nA foreign operation is defined in AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’ as meaning an entity that is a subsidiary, associate, joint venture or branch of a reporting entity, the activities of which are based or conducted in a country or currency other than those of the reporting entity.\n\n-   Exchange differences relating to foreign currency monetary items that form part of the net investment of an entity in a foreign operation, must be recognised as a separate component of equity.\n-   Translation of financial reports should otherwise follow the requirements in AASB 121 ‘The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates’.\n\nReporting period\n\nInsurers are required to report the information in the reporting form on an annual basis.\n\n-   The annual information is to be completed in respect of the financial year of the insurer.\n-   The financial information requested in this form is to be reported as at the last day of the reporting period on a financial year to date basis of the insurer.","sortOrder":14},{"sectionNumber":"Reporting lag","sectionType":"part","heading":"Reporting lag","content":"## Reporting lag\n\nThis form must be lodged for each of the reporting units, within the number of business days after the end of the quarter as set out in Reporting Standard GRS 410.0 Movement in Outstanding Claims Provision.","sortOrder":15},{"sectionNumber":"Specific instructions","sectionType":"division","heading":"Specific instructions","content":"###   \nSpecific instructions\n\nClasses of Insurance Business\n\n1.  Direct Business\n\nThe classes of business for companies that are not specialist reinsurers are as follows:\n\n(I). Houseowners/Householders (H & H)\n\nThis class covers the common H & H policies inclusive of:\n\n-   Contents;\n-   Personal property;\n-   Arson; and\n-   Burglary.\n\nPublic liability normally attaching to these products are to be separated and included in Public and Product Liability class of business – item XIII.\n\n(II). Commercial Motor Vehicle\n\nMotor vehicle insurance (including third party property damage) other than insurance covering vehicles defined below under Domestic Motor Vehicle. It includes long and medium haul trucks, cranes and special vehicles, and policies covering fleets.\n\n(III). Domestic Motor Vehicle\n\nMotor vehicle insurance (including third party property damage) covering private use motor vehicles including utilities and lorries, motor cycles, private caravans, box and boat trailers and other vehicles not normally covered by business or commercial policies.\n\n(IV). Travel\n\nInsurance against losses associated with travel including loss of baggage and personal effects, losses on flight cancellations and overseas medical costs.\n\n(V). Fire and Industrial Special Risks (ISR)","sortOrder":16},{"sectionNumber":"Fire","sectionType":"section","heading":"Fire","content":"##### Fire\n\nIncludes all policies normally classified as 'Fire' and includes:\n\n-   sprinkler leakage;\n-   subsidence;\n-   windstorm;\n-   hailstone;\n-   crop;\n-   arson; and\n-   loss of profits and any extraneous risk normally covered under fire policies, e.g. flood.\n\nISR\n\nStandard policy wordings exist for this type of policy. All policies which contain such standard wordings or where the wording is substantially similar are to be classified as ISR.\n\n(VI). Marine\n\nIncludes Marine Hull (including pleasure craft) and Marine Cargo (including sea and inland transit insurance).\n\n(VII). Aviation\n\nAviation (including aircraft hull and aircraft liability).\n\n(VIII). Mortgage\n\nInsurance against losses arising from the failure of debtors to meet financial obligations to creditors or under which payment of debts is guaranteed. It includes lease guarantee.\n\n(IX). Consumer Credit (CCI)\n\nInsurance to protect a consumer's ability to meet the loan repayments on personal loans and credit card finance in the event of death or loss of income due to injury, illness or unemployment.\n\n(X). Other Accident\n\nIncludes the following types of insurance:\n\n-   Miscellaneous accident (involving cash in transit, theft, loss of money);\n-   All risks (baggage, sporting equipment, guns);\n-   Engineering when not part of ISR or Fire policy;\n-   Plate glass when not part of packaged policy (e.g. houseowners /householders)\n-   Guarantee (Insurance Bonds);\n-   Live Stock;\n-   Pluvius; and\n-   Sickness and Accident (which provides stated benefits where the insured is killed or suffers loss of specific parts of the body or is prevented from carrying out the insured’s normal occupation. In addition, regular benefits may be paid over a short period of time (typically less than 3 years), noting that continuous disability policies are now considered to be Life Insurance Policies and should not be provided by general insurance companies).\n\n(XI). Other\n\nAll other insurance business not specifically mentioned elsewhere. It includes, for example:\n\n-   All guarantees (e.g. fidelity Guarantee)\n-   Trade Credit;\n-   Extended Warranty (includes insurance by a third party for a period in excess of the manufacturer's or seller’s normal warranty);\n-   Kidnap and Ransom; and\n-   Contingency.\n\n(XII). Compulsory Third Party Motor Vehicle (CTP)\n\nThis class consists only of CTP business.\n\n(XIII). Public and Product Liability\n\n-   Public Liability covers legal liability to the public in respect of bodily injury or property damage arising out of the operation of the insured's business. Product Liability includes policies that provide for compensation for loss and or injury caused by, or as a result of, the use of goods and also environmental clean-up caused by pollution spills where not covered by Fire and ISR policies.\n-   Also will include builders warranty insurance.\n-   Includes public liability attaching to houseowners/householders policies.\n\n(XIV). Professional Indemnity (PI)\n\nIncludes Directors' and Officers' liability insurance plus legal expense insurance. Cover for legal expenses is generally included in this type of policy.\n\n(XV). Employers' Liability (EL)\n\nIncludes:\n\n-   Workers' compensation;\n-   Seamen's compensation; and\n-   Domestic workers compensation.\n\n2. Reinsurance Business\n\nThe classes of business for companies that provide reinsurance are as follows:\n\nTreaty Proportional: This refers to all forms of quota share and surplus reinsurance written on a treaty reinsurance arrangement where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured subject to the terms and conditions of the pre-agreed treaty wording, and shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.\n\nTreaty Excess of Loss: This refers to all reinsurance arrangements where the reinsurer is bound to accept all business ceded by the reinsured and the reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.\n\nFacultative Proportional: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis and the reinsurer shares in the same proportion of premium and losses of the reinsured.\n\nFacultative Excess of Loss: This refers to non-treaty arrangements where each reinsurance contract is on an individual offer and acceptance basis. The reinsurer pays losses only above an agreed predetermined limit (retention) up to an agreed maximum amount.\n\nReinsurance non-split\n\nThis line item classification disclosed under Reinsurance class of business is to be used where it is not possible for the insurer to separately slit out all the classes of reinsurance businesses. However as required by GPS 115 Capital Adequacy: Insurance Risk Capital Charge (GPS 115), where an insurer writes inwards reinsurance business and is unable to split this business into the classes and types listed, they are to use the highest casualty factors on their outstanding claims liabilities.\n\nWhere an insurer writes inwards reinsurance which spans multiple classes and the insurer cannot readily split the contract between classes, APRA suggests that the contract should be allocated using one of the following methods:\n\n(a) allocate the contract to the category which represents the greatest exposure; or\n\n(b) allocate the contract to the category representing the greatest premium income.\n\nAn insurer that writes inwards reinsurance is free to choose which of the above methods it uses, or may use another appropriate method, provided the same method is used for all contracts and all subsequent periods.","sortOrder":17},{"sectionNumber":"Outstanding Claims Provision net of RI R","sectionType":"section","heading":"Outstanding Claims Provision net of RI Recoveries (undiscounted)","content":"###### Outstanding Claims Provision net of RI Recoveries (undiscounted)\n\nThe Outstanding Claims Provision is to be disclosed by type of business (direct business and inward reinsurance business), net of reinsurance and non reinsurance recoveries, as at the reporting date.\n\nThe Outstanding Claims Provision relates to the liability provision that has been recognised by the insurer in GRF 300.0 Statement of Financial Position, however for the purposes of this form, the Outstanding Claims Provision must be undiscounted.\n\nFor the purposes of this form the total of the OCP for the current financial year (on an undiscounted basis) is to be allocated across the respective time buckets specified on the form. Accordingly, each year that this form is completed the OCP that is recorded for the respective time buckets will likely change as this is reassessed.\n\nFor the “Direct business” and “Reinsurance” business, amounts are to include all Outstanding Claims Provisions associated with:\n\n-   the insurance business written directly by the insurer;\n-   reinsurance business under the “Reinsurance” section of Type of Business column. Inward reinsurance includes amounts, which relate to inward facultative reinsurance and to inward treaty reinsurance.\n-   business sourced through underwriting pools or Joint Ventures, or portfolio transfers/acquisitions.\n\nAccident Year\n\nDirect writers of insurance business are to complete this form based on accident year. This refers to the financial year that the losses/claims associated with individual policies are incurred.\n\nUnderwriting Year\n\nInsurers writing reinsurance business are to complete this form based on accident year. This refers to the financial year of the insurer in which the policy incepts, regardless of when the premiums and claims are actually reported, booked or paid. For example, the 2005 underwriting year for an insurer with a 30 June balance date includes premiums and claims (both paid and outstanding) relating to policies incepting in the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. For an insurer with a 31 December balance date, the 2005 underwriting year includes premiums and claims (both paid and outstanding) relating to policies incepting in the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005.\n\nReserve Release\n\nReserve release refers the occasions when a provision was created/posted for a particular prior financial year and subsequently it is found that this provision will be more than is required to pay for the losses associated with this particular accident year for direct writers of insurance and underwriting year for reinsurance writers. In these instances the insurer releases these excess provisions and they become profits in the current financial year of the insurer.\n\nClaim payments (that are debited out of the outstanding claims provision for accounting purposes) are not to be classified as a reserve release for the purposes of this form.\n\nReserve Strengthening\n\nReserve strengthening refers the occasions when a provision has been created/posted for a particular prior financial year and subsequently it is found that this provision will be insufficient to pay for the losses associated with this particular accident year for direct writers of insurance and underwriting year for reinsurance writers. In these instances the insurer strengthens or increases these provisions in the current financial year by adding additional provisions to accommodate the losses associated with this particular prior accident year and this becomes a reduction in profit (i.e. claims expense in profit and loss in the current financial year).","sortOrder":18}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":3079},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":6,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The standard maintains its original scope of requiring general insurers to report movements in outstanding claims provisions for prudential supervision. The detailed instruction guide and classification schemes represent necessary operational specificity for data collection rather than expansion beyond the original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["17 defined terms in the interpretation section (e.g., 'appointed auditor', 'capital standards', 'Principal Executive Officer')","Extensive cross-references to other legislation and standards including the Insurance Act 1973, Corporations Act 2001, AASB 121, AASB 139, GPS 115, and other APRA forms (GRF 300.0)","Detailed classification scheme requiring 15 distinct classes of direct insurance business (e.g., Houseowners/Householders, Industrial Special Risks, Consumer Credit) and 4 classes of reinsurance business","Dual reporting methodologies requiring different data categorisation for direct insurance (accident year basis) versus reinsurance (underwriting year basis)","Complex foreign currency translation rules with specific requirements for monetary vs non-monetary items, derivatives, and hedge accounting","Conditional submission logic with different requirements for electronic vs paper lodgement, direct submission vs agent submission, and multiple waiver provisions allowing APRA to vary reporting periods, due dates, and lodgement requirements","Technical insurance terminology requiring specialised actuarial and accounting knowledge (e.g., 'facultative excess of loss', 'treaty proportional', 'undiscounted provisions')"],"plain_english_summary":"Requires general insurers in Australia, including foreign branches, to submit Form GRF 410.0 detailing outstanding claims provisions and movements (releases/strengthenings) by insurance type and accident/underwriting year. Reports, usually annual in AUD, are sent electronically or as a signed paper copy and reviewed internally; APRA uses the data to monitor insurers’ reserves and overall financial soundness."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":5,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument sets reporting requirements for movement in outstanding claims provisions for all general insurers and foreign branches from 1 July 2008 (para 2). Paragraph 15 directs that prior periods be reported under the replaced standard; the text does not itself assert an expansion or contraction of scope beyond establishing the GRF 410.0 requirements and procedural rules."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple reporting entities and scopes: authorised insurers, authorised reinsurance entities, and foreign branches (Instruction Guide; paras 2–3).","Detailed class taxonomy for direct and reinsurance business requiring granular allocation across many classes (Instruction Guide: Classes of Insurance Business).","Time‑bucket and measurement rule: outstanding claims must be reported undiscounted and allocated to specified accident/underwriting year buckets (Outstanding Claims Provision section).","Interaction with other returns and standards: ties to GRF 300.0 Statement of Financial Position and GPS 115 Capital Adequacy guidance for reinsurance allocation (Outstanding Claims Provision; Reinsurance non-split).","Foreign currency and accounting rules: explicit application of AASB 121 and AASB 139 translation and hedge accounting requirements (Instruction Guide: Unit of measurement).","Submission and authorisation procedures: electronic 'Direct to APRA' with digital certificates, or paper with specified signatories; agents permitted but insurer remains responsible and must lodge signed paper copy (paras 4, 10–12, 11(c)).","APRA discretion and operational variability: APRA may change reporting frequency per insurer, grant due‑date extensions, waive signed copies, and make minor instruction variations (paras 6, 8, 11(c), 13–14).","Audit and assurance carve‑outs: data is exempted from 'yearly statutory accounts' audit requirement, affecting external assurance expectations (Audit requirements / Instruction Guide).","Practical allocation options for complex reinsurance contracts where splitting is impractical, requiring consistent methodology across periods (Reinsurance non-split).","Prescribed units and rounding conventions (AUD, thousands) creating practical data‑preparation requirements for multi‑currency insurers (Instruction Guide: Unit of measurement)."],"plain_english_summary":"This standard requires all general insurers and foreign insurer branches to report movements in their outstanding claims provisions to APRA using Form GRF 410.0, normally for each financial year (paras 2–3, 5). Submissions must be filed electronically or on paper, digitally signed or signed by senior officers, and lodged four months after the reporting period (paras 4, 7, 10–12).\n\nInsurers pay the compliance costs and must keep internal authorisation controls; APRA can change reporting frequency, waive signed paper copies, and make minor clarifying changes to instructions. The form prescribes class allocations, undiscounted time‑buckets and foreign‑currency translation rules (paras 6, 11–14; Instruction Guide)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo","history":"/api/acts/financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo/history","analysis":"/api/acts/financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/financial-sector-collection-of-data-reporting-standard-determination-no-85-of-2008-grs-410-0-2008-mo/documents"}}