Singapore legislation

Clause 19

of Deposit Insurance and Policy Owners’ Protection Schemes (Amendment) Bill

Clause 19

Amendment of section 55

Section 55 of the principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and substituting the following paragraph:“(a)the Agency has paid compensation out of the PPF Life Fund or the PPF General Fund in accordance with this Act to —

(i)

any insured policy owner;

(ii)

any trustee of a trust of an insured policy;

(iii)

any beneficiary of an accidental death insurance cover; or

(iv)

any combination of persons mentioned in sub‑paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii);”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(4) In this section, a reference to the insured policy owner includes, where compensation has been paid by the Agency under section 48(2) to a person entitled to accidental death benefit under the terms of an accidental death insurance cover provided by a PPF Scheme member to a customer before the inception of an insured policy, the customer of the PPF Scheme member.”.