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THIRD PARTIES (RIGHTS AGAINST INSURERS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1930 - SECT 2

Duty to give necessary information to third parties.

2.(1) In the event of any person becoming bankrupt or making a composition or
arrangement with his creditors, or in the event of an order being made under
section twenty-one of the Bankruptcy Amendment Act (Northern Ireland), 1929,
in respect of the estate of any person, or in the event of a winding-up order
being made, or a resolution for a voluntary winding-up being passed, with
respect to any company or of a receiver or manager of the company's business
or undertaking being duly appointed or of possession being taken by or on
behalf of the holders of any debentures secured by a floating charge of any
property comprised in or subject to the charge, it shall be the duty of the
bankrupt, debtor, personal representative of the deceased debtor or company,
and (as the case may be) of the official assignee or trustee in bankruptcy,
trustee, liquidator, receiver, or manager, or person in possession of the
property, to give, at the request of any person claiming that the bankrupt,
debtor, deceased debtor, or company is under a liability to him, such
information as may reasonably be required by that person for the purpose of
ascertaining whether any rights have been transferred to and vested in him by
this Act and for the purpose of enforcing such rights, if any; and any
contract of insurance, in so far as it purports, whether directly or
indirectly, to avoid the contract or to alter the rights of the parties
thereunder upon the giving of any such information in the events aforesaid, or
otherwise to prohibit or prevent the giving thereof in the said events, shall
be of no effect.

(2) If the information given to any person in pursuance of sub-section (1) of
this section discloses reasonable ground for supposing that there have or may
have been transferred to that person under this Act rights against any
particular insurer, that insurer shall be subject to the same duty as is
imposed by the said sub-section on the persons therein mentioned.

(3) The duty to give information imposed by this section shall include a duty
to allow all contracts of insurance, receipts for premiums, and other relevant
documents in the possession or power of the person on whom the duty is so
imposed, to be inspected and copies thereof to be taken.

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