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Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....thereto and further to amend the Insurance Act, 1938, the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956 and the General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act, 1972. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows: STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS 1. The insurance industry requires a high degree of regulation. The Insurance Act, 1938 provides for the institution of the Controller of Insurance to act as a strong and powerful supervisory and regulatory authority with powers to direct, advise, caution, prohibit, investigate, inspect, prosecute, search, seize, fine, amalgamate, authorise, register and liquidate insurance companies. However, after the nationalisation of the life insurance industry in 1956 and the general insurance industry in 1972, the role of the Controller of Insurance diminished in significance over a period of time. 2. In April, 1993, the Government set up a high-powered Committee headed by Shri R.N. Malhotra, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India, to examine the structure of the insurance industry and recommend changes to make it more efficient and competitive keeping in view the structural changes in other parts of the financial.....

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Schedule 1

Title: First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....the expressions "group" and "same management" shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (54 of 1969)."; (b) in sub-section (11),-- (i) for "Explanation 1", substitute "Explanation"; (ii) omit Explanation 2. 11. After section 6A, insert the following:-- "6AA. Manner of divesting excess shareholding by promoter in certain cases. (1) No promoter shall at any time hold more than twenty-six per cent. or such other percentage as may be prescribed, of the paid-up equity capital in an Indian insurance company: Provided that in a case where an Indian insurance company begins the business of life insurance, general insurance or re-insurance in which the promoters hold more than twenty-six per cent. of the paid-up equity capital or such other excess percentage as may be prescribed, the promoters shall divest in a phased manner the share capital in excess of the twenty-six per cent, of the paid-up equity capital or such excess paid-up equity capital as may be prescribed, after a period of ten years from the date of the commencement of the said business by such Indian insurance company or within such.....

Finance Act 1999 Chapter III

Title: Direct Taxes Income-tax

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....paid, the cost shall be taken as nil; (b) "specified security" means the securities as defined in clause (h) of section 2 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (42 of 1956) and includes employees' stock option and sweat equity shares; (c) "sweat equity shares" means equity shares issued by a company to its employees or directors at a discount or for consideration other than cash for providing know-how or making available rights in the nature of intellectual property rights or value additions, by whatever name called; and (d) "value" means the difference between the fair market value and the cost for acquiring specified securities.'. Section 11 - Amendment Of Section 24 In section 24 of the Income-tax Act, in sub-section (2), after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted with effect from the 1st day of April, 2000, namely :- 'Provided further that where the property is acquired or constructed with capital borrowed on or after the 1st day of April, 1999 and such acquisition or construction is completed before the 1st day of April, 2001, the provisions of the first proviso shall have effect as if for the words "thirty thousand rupees", the.....

Finance Act, 1999 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....1999-2000 Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fiftieth Year of the Republic of India as follows: - SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Finance Act 1999. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, Sections 2 to 99 [except clause (1) of Section 6] shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 1999. SECTION 02: INCOME TAX (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1999, income tax shall be charged at the rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule. (2) In the cases to which Paragraph A of Part I of the First Schedule applies, where the assessee has, in the previous year, any net agricultural income exceeding six hundred rupees, in addition to total income, and the total income exceeds fifty thousand rupees, then,- (a) the net agricultural income shall be taken into account, in the manner provided in clause (b) [that is to say, as if the net agricultural income were comprised in the total income after the first fifty thousand rupees of the total income but without being liable to tax], only for the purpose of charging income tax in respect of the.....

Finance Act 1999 Section 6

Title: Amendment of Section 10

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....agriculture and allied sectors; or (F) such other sectors as may be notified by the Central Government in this behalf; or (ii) production or manufacture of any article or substance for which patent has been granted to the National Research Laboratory or any other scientific research institution approved by the Department of Science and Technology;'; (k) in clause (23G), with effect from the 1st day of April, 2000, - (A) for the words "the business of developing, maintaining and operating", the words, brackets and figures "the business of (i) developing, (ii) maintaining and operating, or (iii) developing, maintaining and operating" shall be substituted; (B) in the Explanation, in clause (c), - (i) in sub-clause (i), for the word, brackets, figure and letter "sub-section (4A)", the words, brackets and figures "sub-clause (i) of sub-section (4)" shall be substituted; (ii) for sub-clause (ii), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely :- "(ii) an industrial undertaking which - (a) is set up in any part of India for the generation or generation and distribution of power if it begins to generate power at any time during the period beginning on the 1st day.....

Finance Act 1999 Section 3

Title: Amendment of Section 2

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....the transfer of the undertaking is on a going concern basis; (vii) the demerger is in accordance with the conditions, if any, notified under sub-section (5) of section 72A by the Central Government in this behalf. Explanation 1. - For the purposes of this clause, "undertaking" shall include any part of an undertaking, or a unit or division of an undertaking or a business activity taken as a whole, but does not include individual assets or liabilities or any combination thereof not constituting a business activity. Explanation 2. - For the purposes of this clause, the liabilities referred to in sub-clause (ii), shall include - (a) the liabilities, which arise out of the activities or operations of the undertaking; (b) the specific loans or borrowings (including debentures) raised, incurred and utilised solely for the activities or operations of the undertaking; and (c) in cases, other than those referred to in clause (a) or clause (b), so much of the amounts of general or multipurpose borrowings, if any, of the demerged company as stand in the same proportion which the value of the assets transferred in a demerger bears to the total value of the assets of such.....

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Chapter 4

Title: Duties, Powers and Functions of Authority

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....of insurance claim, surrender value of policy and other terms and conditions of contracts of insurance; (c) specifying requisite qualifications, code of conduct and practical training for intermediary or insurance intermediaries and agents; (d) specifying the code of conduct for surveyors and loss assessors; (e) promoting efficiency in the conduct of insurance business; (f) promoting and regulating professional organisations connected with the insurance and re-insurance business; (g) levying fees and other charges for carrying out the purposes of this Act; (h) calling for information from, undertaking inspection of, conducting enquiries and investigations including audit of the insurers, intermediaries, insurance intermediaries and other organisations connected with the insurance business; (i) control and regulation of the rates, advantages, terms and conditions that may be offered by insurers in respect of general insurance business not so controlled and regulated by the Tariff Advisory Committee under section 64U of the Insurance Act, 1938; (j) specifying the form and manner in which books of account shall be maintained and statement of accounts, shall be.....

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Section 14

Title: Duties, Powers and Functions of Authority

State: Central

Year: 1999

.....of insurance claim, surrender value of policy and other terms and conditions of contracts of insurance; (c) specifying requisite qualifications, code of conduct and practical training for intermediary or insurance intermediaries and agents; (d) specifying the code of conduct for surveyors and loss assessors; (e) promoting efficiency in the conduct of insurance business; (f) promoting and regulating professional organisations connected with the insurance and re-insurance business; (g) levying fees and other charges for carrying out the purposes of this Act; (h) calling for information from, undertaking inspection of, conducting enquiries and investigations including audit of the insurers, intermediaries, insurance intermediaries and other organisations connected with the insurance business; (i) control and regulation of the rates, advantages, terms and conditions that may be offered by insurers in respect of general insurance business not so controlled and regulated by the Tariff Advisory Committee under section 64U of the Insurance Act, 1938; (j) specifying the form and manner in which books of account shall be maintained and statement of accounts, shall be.....

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Section 25

Title: Establishment of Insurance Advisory Committee

State: Central

Year: 1999

(1) The Authority may, by notification, establish with effect from such date as it may specify in such notification, a Committee to be known as the Insurance Advisory Committee. (2) The Insurance Advisory Committee shall consist of not more than twenty-five members excluding ex- officio members to represent the interests of commerce, industry, transport, agriculture, consumer fora, surveyors, agents, intermediaries, organisations engaged in safety and loss prevention, research bodies and employees' association in the insurance sector. (3) The Chairperson and the members of the Authority shall be the ex- officio Chairperson and ex- officio members of the Insurance Advisory Committee. (4) The objects of the Insurance Advisory Committee shall be to advise the Authority on matters relating to the making of the regulations under section 26. (5) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (4), the Insurance Advisory Committee may advise the Authority on such other matters as may be prescribed.

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999 Section 8

Title: Bar on Future Employment of Members

State: Central

Year: 1999

The Chairperson and the whole-time members shall not, for a period of two years from the date on which they cease to hold office as such, except with the previous approval of the Central Government, accept-- (a) any employment either under the Central Government or under any State Government; or (b) any appointment in any company in the insurance sector.