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247 Who is an insurer?
247 Who is an insurer?
(1) An insurer is a life company that writes life insurance or a general insurer.
(2) A general insurer is a person—
(a) who writes general insurance, and
(b) who does so otherwise than as an insurance intermediary, and
(c) who is authorised as a general insurer under the Commonwealth Insurance Act 1973.
Note.
Life company and insurance intermediary are defined in the Dictionary.
s 247: Am 2005 No 51, Sch 1 [25].