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Article (8) - Maintenance of Solvency Margin

IA-BOD-RES 25/2014 Effective from 28/12/2014
  1. The Company shall at all times comply with the requirements of the Solvency Margin, which means maintaining Own Funds as per Article (7) above for the largest of the following:
     
    1. Minimum Capital Requirement;
       
    2. Minimum Guarantee Fund; and
       
    3. Solvency Capital Requirement.
       
  2. The Company shall immediately report to the Authority the event of non-compliance with maintaining the Minimum Capital Requirement or Solvency Capital Requirement. In this case, the Company shall submit a realistic recovery plan to re-establish the level of Own Funds covering the Minimum Capital Requirement or Solvency Capital Requirement for approval by the Authority within thirty (30) days from the date of submitting the report. The recovery plan must achieve compliance with the Minimum Capital Requirement or Solvency Capital Requirement within six (6) months of the date of observation of non-compliance with the Minimum Capital Requirement or Solvency Capital Requirement.
     
  3. The Company shall immediately report to the Authority the event of non-compliance with maintaining the Minimum Guarantee Fund. In this case, the Company shall submit a realistic recovery plan to re-establish the level of Own Funds covering the Minimum Guarantee Fund for approval by the Authority within thirty (30) days from the date of submitting the report. The recovery plan must achieve compliance with the Minimum Guarantee Fund within three (3) months of the date of observation of non-compliance with the Minimum Guarantee Fund.
     
  4. In the event of non-compliance with either the Minimum Guarantee Fund or Solvency Capital Requirement, the Company shall submit a progress report to the Authority every thirty (30) days following the approval of the recovery plan and until such time that the recovery plan has been realized.
     
  5. In the event of non-compliance with the Minimum Capital Requirement, the Company shall submit progress reports based on the timing approved by the Authority until such time that the recovery plan has been realized.
     
  6. In the event of exceptional circumstances, the Authority may extend the recovery period by three (3) months, if appropriate.
     
  7. In the event that the Company is unable to re-establish the level of Own Funds or fails to show significant progress in re-establishing the level of Own Funds to meet the Solvency Margin within the period identified by the Authority, or in other exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the Authority, the Director General will raise the concern to the Board of the Authority to take the necessary actions in that regard as per the Law's stipulations.