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GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA
 
ACT
No. 27 of 1997
 
Date of assent: 11th November, 1997
 
An Act to regulate the insurance industry; to repeal the Insurance Act (Cap 392); and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
 
[14th November, 1997]
 
ENACTED by the parliament of Zambia.                                                     
 
 
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. This Act may be cited as the insurance Act, 1997, and shall come into operation on such dates as the Minister may, by statutory order, appoint.                                                                                                       
2.         In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -                           
           
            “admitted asset”, in relation to an insurer, has the meaning assigned   
             to it in section thirty-eight;
            “assessor’ means a person who, where a claim is made against an
            insurer for loss or damage, assesses the extent of the loss or damage;
“auditor” has the meaning assigned to it in the Companies Act;
Authority” means the Pensions and Insurance Authority
 established by section four of the Pensions Scheme Regulation
 Act;
(as amended by Act No.26 of 2005)
 
“Board” means the Pensions and Insurance Authority Board
established by section six of the pensions Scheme Regulation Act
(as amended by Act No.26 of 2005)
“broker” means a person who, on behalf of an insured person or a
   person who intends to take up an insurance policy, arranges
  insurance policies;
“child” includes a child born out of wedlock, a step child, an
 unborn child or an adopted child;
(as amended by Act No.26 of 2005)
 

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