Objection to policies

(1) If, within twenty-eight days after a company delivers an industrial policy– (a) to the policyholder; or (b) at the residence of the policyholder to some other person who resides there and is apparently not less than 16 years of age and by whom any premium in respect of the policy is paid on behalf of the policyholder, the policyholder returns the policy to the company with an objection in writing to any term or condition of the policy, the company shall immediately refund any premium which has been paid in respect of the policy which shall thereupon be cancelled. (2) Where an industrial policy is sent by post by a company to the person to whom it is issued, it shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been delivered to him at the time at which it would reach him in the ordinary course of post. (3) For the purposes of this section, a policy shall be deemed to have been returned to a company with an objection if the policy and the writing specifying the objection are posted for transmission to the company by registered letter.