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The Insurance Act, 2005 - Bahamas Financial Services Board

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in that country for at least<br />

five years<br />

before the date of the<br />

application; and<br />

(ii) it has appointed some person<br />

resident in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bahamas</strong> to be<br />

its principal representative<br />

in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Bahamas</strong> and has<br />

informed the Commission in<br />

writing of the name and<br />

address of that person,<br />

the Commission shall, either unconditionally or subject to<br />

such conditions as it may specify, register the applicant in<br />

respect of the class or classes of insurance business and<br />

shall notify the applicant accordingly.<br />

(2) Where the Commission is not satisfied, in<br />

relation to all or any of the classes of insurance business<br />

in respect of which the application is made, as to one or<br />

more of the conditions set out in subsection (1) it shall<br />

notify the applicant in writing that -<br />

(a) it proposes to refuse to register it; or<br />

(b) that it proposes to refuse to register<br />

it in respect of one or more of the<br />

classes of insurance business for which<br />

application is made,<br />

giving its reasons for so doing and shall notify it of its<br />

rights of appeal to the Commission for reconsideration and<br />

under section 228.<br />

Certificate 29. <strong>The</strong> Commission shall furnish to every<br />

of regis- insurer registered under this <strong>Act</strong> a certificate in the<br />

tration. prescribed form that the company has been so registered, and<br />

the certificate shall state the class or classes of

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