• “(3) This section shall expire on the close of the 31st day of December 1997.”

• “(4) This Part of this Act has effect notwithstanding the repeal of The Companies Act 1955 by The Companies Act Repeal Act 1993.”

“11 Corporation to provide abstract of accounts to certain members

• “(1) The Corporation shall, in addition to complying with section 18 of The Financial Reporting Act 1993, deliver to the Registrar, and send to every member of the Corporation who is enrolled on the sub-register established under section 11A of this Act at the address of the member recorded on the sub-register, not less than 14 days before the annual general meeting of the Corporation, the following documents:

  • “(a) An abstract of the annual accounts:

  • “(b) The report of the actuary or a summary of it:

  • “(c) A statement of the policyholders' funds.

  “(2) The documents shall be accompanied by a statement that any such member is entitled to obtain on request and free of charge a copy of the annual accounts and the auditor's report.

“11A Sub-register of members

• “(1) The Corporation shall establish and maintain a sub-register of members who elect to be enrolled on the sub-register for the purpose of receiving the documents referred to in section 11(1) of this Act.

  “(2) The Corporation shall, by notice in writing, require each member to elect whether or not that member wishes to be enrolled on the sub-register.

  “(3) Every notice under subsection (2) of this section must—

  • “(a) Explain the effect of enrolment on the sub-register; and

  • “(b) State that, unless the member elects to be enrolled on the sub-register by the date specified in the notice, not being a date less than 30 days after the date on which the notice was posted to the member, the member will not be enrolled on the sub-register.

  “(4) The Corporation shall enter on the sub-register the name of every member who elects, within the time specified in the notice referred to in subsection (3)(b) of this section, to be enrolled on the sub-register.

  “(5) The Corporation may from time to time, by notice in writing to any member who is enrolled on the sub-register, require that member to elect whether or not that member wishes to continue to be enrolled on the sub-register.

  “(6) Every notice under subsection (5) of this section must—

  • “(a) Explain the effect of continuing to be enrolled on the sub-register; and

  • “(b) State that, unless the member elects to continue to be enrolled on the sub-register by the date specified in the notice, not being a date less than 30 days after the date on which the notice was posted to the member, the name of the member will be removed from the sub-register.

  “(7) The Corporation shall remove from the sub-register the name of any member who—

  • “(a) Elects not to continue to be enrolled on the sub-register; or

  • “(b) Does not elect, within the time specified in the notice referred to in subsection (6)(b) of this section, to continue to be enrolled on the sub-register.

  “(8) Subsection (7) of this section shall apply notwithstanding that the Corporation may be aware that the member has not received the notice referred to in subsection (6) of this section.

  “(9) Notwithstanding subsections (2) and (5) of this section, any member may make written application to the Corporation to have his or her name entered on the sub-register and the Corporation shall, on receipt of the application, enter the name of that member on the sub-register.

  “(10) The Corporation may remove the name of a person from the sub-register if—

  • “(a) The person has ceased to be a member of the Corporation; or

  • “(b) The person gives the Corporation a written request to remove his or her name from the sub-register.”

• “(2) Any such scheme for conversion shall—

  • “(a) State the name of the proposed company:

  • “(b) State the number of shares in the proposed company:

  • “(c) Have annexed to it the proposed constitution of the proposed company, if it is proposed to have one:

  • “(d) Specify the persons or classes of persons who will be shareholders in the proposed company:

  • “(e) Specify, in the case of persons or classes of persons who are members of the Corporation and who will be shareholders in the proposed company, by reference to the interests of those persons or classes of persons in the policies of the Corporation, the entitlements of those persons or classes of persons to shares in the proposed company:

  • “(f) Specify, in the case of persons or classes of persons who are members of the Corporation and who will not be shareholders in the proposed company, the rights and liabilities of such persons or classes of persons:

  • “(g) Contain such other matters as the Corporation thinks appropriate or as the High Court directs.”

“19 Registrar to register Corporation as a company on receipt of certain documents

• “(1) After the expiration of the period referred to in section 18(6) of this Act and if the scheme for conversion has been confirmed by the High Court or the Court of Appeal, as the case may be, the Corporation shall deliver to the Registrar the following documents and fee:

  • “(a) A copy of the scheme for conversion:

  • “(b) A sealed copy of the order of the High Court or Court of appeal, as the case may be:

  • “(c) An application for registration under section 12 of The Companies Act 1993:

  • “(d) Such fee as is payable under regulations made under The Companies Act 1993 on an application to register a company under section 12 of that Act.

  “(2) The Registrar, on being satisfied that—

  • “(a) The documents delivered under subsection (1) of this section are in accordance with that subsection; and

  • “(b) Sections 20, 21 and 22 of The Companies Act 1993 have been complied with,—

  “shall retain and register the documents and issue a certificate of incorporation for the company.

  “(3) The certificate of incorporation shall be conclusive evidence that the requirements of this section have been complied with and that the Corporation was, on the date shown in the certificate, duly registered as a company under The Companies Act 1993.

  “(4) From the commencement of the conversion date the Corporation shall cease to be incorporated under this Act and shall be a company incorporated under Part II of The Companies Act 1993 and that Act (except section 120(2)) shall apply to it accordingly.

  “(5) The Registrar shall forthwith publish a notice in the Gazette of the registration of the Corporation as a company pursuant to this section.

“20 Issue of shares

• “(1) Upon the registration of the Corporation as a company,—

  • “(a) All persons who are to be shareholders of the company in accordance with the terms of the scheme for conversion shall be shareholders of the company; and

  • “(b) The shares in the company to which all such persons are entitled in accordance with the scheme for conversion shall be deemed to be issued to such persons and shall be deemed to be paid in full; and

  • “(c) An entry shall be made in the share register of the company in respect of each such person showing—

    • “(i) The name of that person:

    • “(ii) The address of that person to which notices and other documents are to be sent:

    • “(iii) The class of share and the number of shares in the company to be held by that person calculated in accordance with the terms of the scheme for conversion.

  “(2) Where any shares are, pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, deemed to have been issued to shareholders of the company, the company shall deliver to the Registrar, within 30 days of their completion,—

  • “(a) A list, verified by the statutory declaration of a director, showing—

    • “(i) The number of shares comprised in the issue:

    • “(ii) The names, addresses, and descriptions of the persons to whom the shares have been issued:

    • “(iii) The amount credited as having been paid in respect of each share issued:

    • “(iv) The consideration deemed to have been provided by the persons to whom the shares have been issued for the issue of the shares:

  • “(b) A statutory declaration by a director of the company to the effect that, to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, having made due enquiry,—

    • “(i) The shares deemed to have been issued have been issued in accordance with the scheme for conversion:

    • “(ii) The consideration deemed to have been provided is not less than the amount by which the shares have been credited as having been paid otherwise than in cash,—

    and describing the consideration deemed to have been given by the persons to whom the shares have been issued (or, where the effect of the issue of shares is to satisfy the whole or part of a liability of the Corporation or the company, the liability) in sufficient detail to identify it and stating an estimate of its value and how that value was assessed.

  “(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2)(a) of this section, or section 87 of The Companies Act 1993, the company shall not be required to show on the list required to be delivered to the Registrar by subsection (2)(a) of this section the description of any person who, immediately before the conversion date, was a member of the Corporation if the register of members of the Corporation did not contain a description of that person.”

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• No shares in a company into which the Corporation has become converted pursuant to this Part of this Act that are issued to a person as a member of the Corporation pursuant to a scheme for conversion shall require a contribution from that person to the assets of the company in the event of the company being put into liquidation.”