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AASB 4 - Insurance Contracts - August 2015
20DAn insurer’s activities are predominantly connected with insurance if, and only if:
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20D An insurer’s activities are predominantly connected with insurance if, and only if:
(a) the carrying amount of its liabilities arising from contracts within the scope of this Standard, AASB 1023 and AASB 1038, which includes any deposit components or embedded derivatives unbundled from insurance contracts applying paragraphs 7–12 of this Standard, is significant compared to the total carrying amount of all its liabilities; and
(b) the percentage of the total carrying amount of its liabilities connected with insurance (see paragraph 20E) relative to the total carrying amount of all its liabilities is:
(i) greater than 90 per cent; or
(ii) less than or equal to 90 per cent but greater than 80 per cent, and the insurer does not engage in a significant activity unconnected with insurance (see paragraph 20F).