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28. Statement of investment of assets.- (1) Every insurer carrying on the business of life insurance shall every year, within thirty-one days from the beginning of the year submit to the Authority a return showing as at the 31st day of December of the preceding year the assets held invested in accordance with Section 27 and all other particulars necessary to establish that the requirements of that section have been complied with, and such return shall be certified by a principal officer of the insurer.

(2) Every such insurer shall also furnish, within fifteen days from the last day of March, June, and September, a return certified as aforesaid showing as at the end of each of the said months the assets held invested in accordance with Sec. 27.

(2A) In respect of the Government securities and other approved securities invested and kept invested in accordance with sub-section (1) of Section 27 an insurer shall submit along with the returns referred to in sub sections (1) and (2) a certificate, where such assets are in the custody of a banking company, from that company, and in any other case from the chairman, two directors and a principal officer, if the insurer is a company, or otherwise from a principal officer of the insurer to the effect that the securities are held free of any encumbrance, charge, hypothecation, or lien, and every such certificate after the first shall also state that since the date of the certificate immediately preceding all the securities have been so held.

(2B) In respect of the assets forming the controlled fund within the meaning of Section 27A, and which do not form part of the Government securities and approved securities invested and kept invested in accordance with Section 27, an insurer shall submit, along with the returns referred to in sub sections (1) and (2), a statement, where such assets are in the custody of a banking company, from that company, and, in any other case, from the chairman, two directors and a principal officer if the insurer is a company, or from a principal officer of the insurer if the insurer is not a company, specifying the assets, which are subjected to any charge and certifying that the assets, which are held free of any encumbrance, charge, hypothecation, or lien, and every such statement after the first shall also specify the charges created in respect of any of those assets since the date of the statement immediately preceding, and, if any such charges have been liquidated, the date on which they were so liquidated.

(3) The Authority may, at his discretion require any insurer to whom sub-section (1) applies to submit before the 1st day of August in each or any year a return of the nature referred to in subsection (1), certified as required by mat sub section and prepared as at the 30th day of June.

(4) In the case of an insurer having his principal place of business or domicile outside India, the Authority may, on application made by the insurer, extend the periods of fifteen and thirty one days mentioned in the foregoing sub sections to thirty days and sixty days, respectively.

(5) The Authority shall be entitled at any time to take such steps as he may consider necessary for the inspection or verification of the assets invested in compliance with Section 27 or for the purpose of securing the particulars necessary to establish that the requirements of that section have been complied with; the insurer shall comply with any requisition made in this behalf by the Authority, and if he fails to do so within two months from the receipt of the requisition he shall be deemed to have made default in complying with the requirements of this section.

 

 

 

 

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