Additional provisions as to returns under section 94 or 95
97.—(1)  Any member or policy owner of an insurer has a right, on applying to the insurer, to be sent by the insurer at an address supplied by the member or policy owner copies of documents lodged by the insurer to comply with section 94 or 95, and to have the copies despatched not later than 14 days after the insurer receives the application.
(2)  The right referred to in subsection (1) does not extend to any document excepted from this provision by regulations prescribed or directions issued under section 94(3), or to a document of any other description except the last lodged of that description.
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(3)  Any person has the right, on payment of the prescribed fee, at any time during working hours of the Authority’s office, to inspect at that office any document lodged by an insurer to comply with section 94 or 95 and any document required by that section to accompany the document so lodged and make a copy of the whole or any part of it.
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(4)  The right referred to in subsection (3) does not extend to any document excepted from this provision by regulations prescribed or directions issued under section 94(3), or to documents of any other description lodged more than 10 years previously.
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(5)  In any proceedings, a certificate signed by any person appointed by the Authority under section 137 that a document is one lodged by an insurer to comply with section 94 or 95, or one that accompanied documents so lodged, is admissible as evidence of the facts certified.
(6)  Any person who contravenes section 94 or 95 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $100,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $10,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.
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