Forwarding of insurance policy documents

(1) Where a person has entered into a contract of insurance with an insurance company, the company shall forward to that person the relevant insurance policy documents within sixty days of the entering into the contract or such other time as the Supervisor may consider reasonable and in the case of an of an official, and comprehensive cover note indicating the particulars of cover shall be deemed to satisfy this requirement. (2) No insurer shall issue a policy in Belize which, whatever its nature, is not printed or typed in clearly legible letters and no insurance policy shall be issued or used in Belize unless that policy wording has first been approved in writing by the (3) Any insurer which contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars. (4) A company shall, in accordance with section 161, keep a register of policies at its principal office in Belize. Every such register shall, at all times during the normal business hours of the company, be available for inspection by the Supervisor of Insurance, the Commissioner of Police and the Commissioner 162 of Income Tax or by some person authorised in writing by any of those public officers.