Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 2707

The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Variation of Threshold Conditions) Order 2002

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" Appointment of claims representatives
     2A.  - (1) If it appears to the Authority that - 


(a) the regulated activity that the person concerned is carrying on, or is seeking to carry on, is the effecting or carrying out of contracts of insurance, and

(b) contracts of insurance against damage arising out of or in connection with the use of motor vehicles on land (other than carrier's liability) are being, or will be, effected or carried out by the person concerned,



that person must have a claims representative in each EEA State other than the United Kingdom.

    (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), contracts of reinsurance are to be disregarded.

    (3) A claims representative is a person with responsibility for handling and settling claims arising from accidents of the kind mentioned in Article 1(2) of the fourth motor insurance directive.

    (4) In this paragraph "fourth motor insurance directive" means Directive 2000/26/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16th May 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles and amending Council Directives 73/239/EEC and 88/357/EEC.".

Nick Ainger

Philip Woolas
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

28th October 2002