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means analogous non-reinsurance financing agreements, including contingent loans, securitisations and any other arrangements in respect of contracts of insurance that are analogous to contracts of reinsurance in terms of the risks transferred and the finance provided.
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means;
(1) a reinsurance to close effected before 1 January 2005; or
(2) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with the members of that syndicate in a later syndicate year or the members of one other syndicate ("the reinsuring members") that the reinsuring members will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year that is:
(a) effected after 1 January 2005; and
(b) not a balance transfer between two syndicate years where the syndicate has only one member and the member is the same in each of those years; or
(3) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with a subsidiary of the Society that that subsidiary will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year ("the reinsured liabilities") and where:
(a) that subsidiary is wholly owned by the Society and if from time to time the subsidiary has an asset or cash flow deficiency such that the subsidiary is unable to meet any of the liabilities which it has reinsured, the Society is legally obliged to pay to the subsidiary a sum equal to that deficiency; and
(b) at the effective date of the agreement, the relevant syndicate year has been open for at least two years after the date at which it would normally have been closed in accordance with the policies and practices in relation to the syndicate concerned.
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(a) a reinsurance to close effected before 1 January 2005; or(b) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with the members of that syndicate in a later syndicate year or the members of one other syndicate ("the reinsuring members") that the reinsuring members will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year that is:(i) effected after 1 January 2005; and(ii) not a balance transfer between two syndicate years where the syndicate has only one member and the member is the same in each of those years; or(c) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with a subsidiary of the Society that that subsidiary will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year ("the reinsured liabilities") and where:(i) that subsidiary is wholly owned by the Society and if from time to time the subsidiary has an asset or cash flow deficiency such that the subsidiary is unable to meet any of the liabilities which it has reinsured, the Society is legally obliged to pay to the subsidiary a sum equal to that deficiency; and(ii) at the effective date of the agreement, the relevant syndicate year has been open for at least two years after the date at which it would normally have been closed in accordance with the policies and practices in relation to the syndicate concerned.
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the regulated activity, specified in article 63J(2) of the Regulated Activities Order, which is in summary any of the following:(a) notifying the agreement seller of changes in payment due under a regulated sale and rent back agreement or of other matters of which that agreement requires him to be notified;(b) taking any necessary steps for the purpose of making payments to the agreement seller under that agreement; and(c) taking any necessary steps for the purposes of collecting or recovering payments due under that agreement from the agreement seller;but a person is not to be treated as administering a regulated sale and rent back agreement because he has, or exercises, a right to take action for the purposes of enforcing that agreement (or to require that such action is or is not taken);and in relation to a person who acquires obligations or rights under a regulated sale and rent back agreement, an activity is a specified kind of activity for the purposes of this definition only if the agreement was entered into by the agreement provider (rather than the obligations or rights acquired) on or after 1 July 2009.
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the regulated activity, specified in article 53D of the Regulated Activities Order, which is in summary advising a person if the advice:(a) is given to a person in his capacity as:(i) an agreement seller or potential agreement seller; or(ii) an agreement provider or potential agreement provider; and(b) is advice on the merits of his doing either of the following:(i) entering into a particular regulated sale and rent back agreement; or(ii) varying the terms of a regulated sale and rent back agreement entered into on or after 1 July 2009 by him as agreement seller or agreement provider, in such a way as to vary his obligations under that agreement and in relation to a person who acquires obligations or rights under a regulated sale and rent back agreement, an activity is a specified kind of activity for the purposes of this part of the definition only if the agreement was entered into by the agreement provider (rather than the obligations or rights acquired) on or after 1 July 2009.
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the regulated activity, specified in article 25E(1) of the Regulated Activities Order, which is in summary making arrangements:(a) for another person to enter into a regulated sale and rent back agreement as an agreement seller or as an agreement provider; or(b) for another person to vary the terms of a regulated sale and rent back agreement, entered into on or after 1 July 2009 by him as agreement seller or agreement provider, in such a way so as to vary his obligations under that agreement and in relation to a person who acquires obligations or rights under a regulated sale and rent back agreement, an activity is a specified kind of activity for the purposes of this part of the definition only if the agreement was entered into by the agreement provider (rather than the obligations or rights acquired) on or after 1 July 2009;including making arrangements with a view to a person who participates in the arrangements entering into a regulated sale and rent back agreement as agreement seller or agreement provider.