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Insurance Contracts Regulations 1985
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#### 23 Exclusions
The following are excluded:
(a) death, disablement or unemployment resulting from:
(i) a deliberately self‑inflicted injury;
(ii) war or warlike activities;
(iii) expropriation of any property;
(iv) the use, existence or escape of nuclear weapons material, or ionizing radiation from, or contamination by radioactivity from, any nuclear fuel or nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel; or
(v) the insured person:
(A) being under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of a drug, other than a drug taken or administered by or in accordance with the advice of a duly qualified medical practitioner;
(B) being addicted to intoxicating liquor or to a drug;
(C) taking part in a riot or civil commotion;
(D) acting maliciously; or
(E) engaging in professional sporting activities;
(b) death or disablement occurring at a time when the insured person is flying, or engaging in aerial activities, otherwise than as a passenger in an aircraft that is authorised to fly under a law that relates to the safety of aircraft;
(c) the insured person becoming voluntarily unemployed;
(d) where the insured person is employed for a specified period or by reference to specified work—the insured person becoming unemployed at the expiration of the period or on the completion of the work.