80. (1) Every provident society shall at the expiry of the calendar year prepare a revenue account and balance sheet in the prescribed form verified in the prescribed manner, together with a report on the general state of the society's affairs and shall cause the revenue account and balance sheet to be audited by an auditor, and the auditor shall so far as may be the audit of a provident society have the powers of, exercise the functions vested in, and discharge the duties and be subject to the liabilities imposed on, an auditor of companies by Section 145 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913).
(2) Every provident society shall at the expiry of. the calendar year prepare with respect to that year-
(a) a statement showing separately for each class of contingency separately specified in Section 65¬
i. the number of new policies effected, the total amount insured thereby and the total premium income received in respect thereof and the number of existing policies discontinued during the year with the total amount insured thereby, and
ii. the total amount of claims made and the total amount paid in satisfaction thereof;
(b) a statement showing details of every insurance effected on a life other than the life of the person insuring; and
(c) a statement showing the total amount paid as allowances to agents and canvassers.
(3) Until the expiry of two years from the commencement of this Act this section and Section 73 shall apply to provident societies registered before the commencement of this Act under the Provident Insurance Societies Act, 1912 (5 of 1912), as if the reference to the calendar year were a reference to either the financial year or the calendar year.
Actuarial report and abstract
81. Every provident society shall once in every five years or at such shorter intervals as may be laid down by the rules of the society cause an investigation to be made as at the last day of a calendar year into its financial condition including the valuation of its liabilities and assets by an actuary.
(2) The report of the actuary shall contain an abstract in which shall be stated .
(a) the general principles adopted in the valuation, including the method by which the valuation age of lives was ascertained,
(b) the rate at each age of the mortality and any other factor assumed and the annuity values used in valuation,
(c) the reserve values held against policies effected,
(d) the rate of interest assumed, and
(e) the provision made for expenses,
and shall have appended to it a certificate signed by a principal officer of the society that all material necessary for proper valuation has been placed at the disposal of the actuary and that full and accurate particulars of every policy under which there is a liability either actual or contingent have been furnished to the actuary for the purpose of the investigation.
(3) If the actuary finds that the financial conditions of the society is such that no surplus exists for distribution as bonus to the policy holders, or as dividend to the shareholders, he shall state in his report whether in his opinion the society is insolvent and, if so, whether it should be wound up or not, and the extent to which in his opinion existing contracts should be modified or existing rates of premium should be adjusted to make good the deficiency in the assets.
Submission of returns to Authority
82.(1) The revenue account and balance sheet with the auditor's report thereon and the report on the general state of the society's affairs referred to in sub section (2) of Section 80, shall be printed and four copies of these and of the statements referred to in sub-section (2) of Section 80, shall be furnished as returns to the Authority within six months from the end of the period to which they relate.
(2) All the material necessary for the proper valuation of the liabilities of the society under the provisions of Section 81 shall be placed at disposal of the actuary within three months from the end of the period to which such material relates, and the report and abstract referred to in Section 81 shall be furnished as a return to the Authority within a further period of three months:
Provided that the Central Government may, in any case, extend the time allowed by this sub section for the furnishing of such return by a period not exceeding three months.
(3) The provisions of sub section (2) of Section 15 relating to the copies therein referred shall apply to the returns referred to in sub section (1) of this section, and the provisions of Section 17 shall apply to the accounts and balance sheet of provident society being a company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913),or under the Indian Companies Act, 1882 (6 of 1882), or under the Indian Companies Act, 1866 (10 of 1866) or under any Act repealed thereby, as they apply to the accounts and balance sheet of an insurer, and the Authority may exercise, in respect of returns made by a provident society and in respect of an investigation or valuation to which Section 81 refers, the same powers as are exercisable by him under Sections 21 and 22, respectively, in the case of an insurer.
Actuarial examination of schemes
83. (1) Every provident society, registered after the commencement of this Act, shall cause every scheme of insurance which it proposes to put into operation, and every provident society registered before the commencement of this Act under the provisions of the Provident Insurance Societies Act, 1912 (5 of 1912), shall cause any scheme which it proposes to put into operation for the first time, after such commencement to be examined by an actuary, and shall not receive any premium or contribution in connection with the scheme until the actuary has certified that the rates, advantages, terms and conditions of the scheme are workable and sound and such certificate has been forwarded to the Authority.
(2) The provisions of sub section (1) shall apply to any alteration of a scheme already in operation, but the Authority may, if he is of opinion that the alteration unfairly affects the interests of existing policy holders, prohibit the alteration, and, if he does so, the society shall not put the altered scheme into operation, unless it first discharges to the satisfaction of the Authority all its liabilities to those of the existing policy holders who dissent from the alteration.
(3) Every provident society registered before the commencement of this Act under the provisions of the Provident Insurance Societies Act, 1912 (5 of 1912), shall, as soon as may be and in any event before the expiry of six months from the commencement of this Act, submit all schemes of insurance which the society has in operation at the commencement of this Act to examination by an actuary and shall, before the expiration of six months from the commencement of the Insurance (Amendment) Act, 1941 (13 of 1941), send the report of the actuary thereon to the Authority
(4) The report of the actuary shall state in respect of each scheme whether the advantages, terms and conditions are workable and sound and, where no actuarial report such as is referred to in Section 81 has been made within the two years preceding the examination the report shall also state whether the assets of the society are sufficient to meet its liabilities under the existing schemes, and, if not how in the opinion of the actuary the existing contracts should be modified.
(5) If the rates, advantages, terms and conditions of any scheme are not reported by the actuary to be workable and sound, Authority shall give notice to the society prohibiting the scheme, and the society shall not after its receipt of such notice enter into any new contract of insurance under the scheme, but all rights and liabilities in respect of contracts of insurance entered into by the society before receipt of the notice shall, subject to the provisions of sub¬section (6), continue as if the notice had not been given.
(6) Where a scheme is prohibited under the provisions of subsection (5) the society shall, where its assets are sufficient to meet all existing liabilities, set apart out of its assets the sum sufficient in the opinion of the actuary to meet the liabilities incurred under the scheme so prohibited, and, where its assets are not so sufficient, within three months from the date of the prohibition, apply to the Court for a modification of its existing contracts or failing such modification for the winding up of the society.
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