Part 4 Write-Down Orders: Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Part 4 Write-Down Orders: Financial Services Compensation Scheme

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Part 15 of FSMA 2000 (the Financial Services Compensation Scheme) is amended as follows.

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After section 217 (insurers in financial difficulties) insert—

“217ZA Insurers subject to write-down orders

(1)     The compensation scheme must include provision requiring the scheme manager to take specified measures for safeguarding policyholders affected by write-down orders.

(2)     A person (“Pâ€) is a policyholder affected by a write-down order if—

(a)     P is a policyholder of an insurer in respect of whom a write-down order has effect, and

(b)     the value of any thing to which P is (or may become) entitled, in P's capacity as a policyholder of the insurer, is reduced under the write-down order.

(3)     Measures specified by virtue of subsection (1) must, in particular, require financial

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