Income Tax (Concessionary Rate of Tax for Approved Offshore Life Insurers) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Apr 2010

No. S 103

Income Tax Act

(Chapter 134)

Income Tax (Concessionary Rate of Tax for Approved Offshore Life Insurers) (Amendment) Regulations 2011

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 43C of the Income Tax Act, the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Income Tax (Concessionary Rate of Tax for Approved Offshore Life Insurers) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st April 2010.

Deletion and substitution of regulation 3 and new regulation 3AA

2. Regulation 3 of the Income Tax (Concessionary Rate of Tax for Approved Offshore Life Insurers) Regulations (Rg 28) is deleted and the following regulations substituted therefor:

“Approval of insurer

3.—(1) The Minister or such person as he may appoint may, upon application by any insurer registered under the Insurance Act (Cap. 142) to carry on life insurance business only and if he considers it expedient in the public interest to do so, during the period from 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2015, approve the insurer as an approved insurer for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2) Any approval under paragraph (1) shall be for such period not exceeding 10 years as the Minister or such person as is appointed under paragraph (1) may specify.

Previously approved insurers

3AA.—(1) Where an insurer registered under the Insurance Act (Cap. 142) was, on 31st March 2010, an approved insurer under regulation 3 as in force before 1st April 2010, it shall remain approved as an approved insurer under regulation 3 until 1st August 2010 unless —

(a)	the insurer makes an application to the Minister, or such other person as he may appoint, on or before 31st July 2010 to continue to be an approved insurer, supported by a declaration made by the insurer in a form determined by the MAS; and
(b)	the Minister or that other person, if he considers it expedient in the public interest to do so, approves the insurer as an approved insurer under regulation 3.

(2) Any approval under paragraph (1) shall be for such period not exceeding 10 years starting from 1st April 2010 as the Minister or the other person referred to in that paragraph may specify, and shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister or that person may think fit to impose.

(3) In this regulation, “MAS” means the Monetary Authority of Singapore established under section 3 of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 186).”.

[G.N. Nos. S 81/2009; S 748/2010]

Made this 25th day of February 2011.

CHAN LAI FUNG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[R032.007.0006.V20 ; AG/LLRD/SL/134/2010/9 Vol. 1]

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