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In forceAmended2020 Revised Edition

Part 4 · Accounting Corporations, Accounting Firms and Accounting Llps

28. Professional indemnity insurance

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2006.

(1)

Every accounting corporation and every accounting LLP registered under this Act must be covered by professional indemnity insurance of at least one of the following amounts, whichever is the highest:

(a)

$1 million;

(b)

a sum equal to the total of $500,000 for every corporate practitioner in the accounting corporation or accounting LLP;

(c)

where applicable, a sum equal to two and a half times the gross income of the accounting corporation or accounting LLP in the last completed financial year of the accounting corporation or accounting LLP subject to a maximum sum of $50 million.

(2)

The Authority may, by rules, vary the amount of coverage under a professional indemnity insurance required by subsection (1).

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