Prudential Regulation Authority Rulebook

1.1

Unless otherwise stated, this Part applies to a non-directive insurer, other than a non-directive friendly society.

1.2

This Part applies to the whole of the firm's business carried on world-wide.

2.1

A firm other than a pure reinsurer must not carry on any commercial business other than insurance business and activities directly arising from that business.

2.2

A pure reinsurer must not carry on any business other than the business of reinsurance and related operations.

3.1

A firm must limit, manage and control its non-insurance activities so that there is no significant risk arising from those activities such that it may be unable to meet its liabilities as they fall due.

4.1

A firm carrying on long-term insurance business must identify the assets relating to its long-term insurance business which it is required to hold by virtue of:

1. (1) in the case of a pure reinsurer:
1. (a) Insurance Company - Technical Provisions 4.1 or 4.2; and
2. (b) Insurance Company - Risk Management 5.1; and
2. (2) in any other case:
1. (a) Insurance Company - Technical Provisions 4.1 or 4.2; and
2. (b) Insurance Company - Risk Management 4.2 and 4.3.

4.2

1. (1) A firm's long-term insurance assets are the items in (2), adjusted to take account of:
1. (a) outgoings in respect of the firm's long-term insurance business; and
2. (b) any transfers made in accordance with 4.5.
2. (2) The items referred to in (1) are:
1. (a) the assets identified under 4.1 (including assets into which those assets have been converted) but excluding any assets identified as being held to cover liabilities in respect of subordinated debt;
2. (b) any other assets identified by the firm as being available to cover its long-term insurance liabilities (including assets into which those assets have been converted) including, if the firm so elects, assets which are excluded under (a);
3. (c) premiums and other receivables in respect of contracts of long-term insurance;
4. (d) other receipts of the long-term insurance business; and
5. (e) all income and capital receipts in respect of the items in (a) to (d).

4.3

1. (1) Unless (2) applies, all the long-term insurance assets of the firm constitute its long-term insurance fund.
2. (2) Where a firm identifies particular long-term insurance assets in connection with different parts of its long-term insurance business, the assets identified in relation to each such part constitute separate long-term insurance funds of the firm.

4.4

A firm must maintain a separate accounting record in respect of each of its long-term insurance funds.

4.5

A firm may not transfer assets out of a long-term insurance fund unless:

1. (1) the assets represent an established surplus; and
2. (2) no more than three months have passed since the determination of that surplus.

5.1

1. (1) A firm must apply a long-term insurance asset only for the purposes of its long-term insurance business.
2. (2) For the purposes of (1), applying an asset includes coming under any obligation (even if only contingently) to apply that asset.

5.2

A firm must not agree to, or allow, any mortgage or charge on its long-term insurance assets other than in respect of a long-term insurance liability.