REGULATIONS ON ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATIONS OF INSURANCE INSTITUTIONS IN FREE TRADE- INDUSTRIAL ZONES OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

 

 

CHAPTER 1

 DEFINITIONS

 

ARTICLE 1.  In these regulations, the following terms are used in lieu of the corresponding phrases:

A.          Free Zones: Free Trade-Industrial Zones of the Islamic Republic of Iran;

B.         Other parts of the country: the Islamic Republic of Iran excluding the Free Zones;

C.         Zone: each one of the Free Zones;

D.         Authority: Authority responsible for the administration of each Free Zone;

E.      Institutions to which these regulations apply: all institutions referred to in article 2 of these regulations;

F.          Insurance institutions: the insurance institutions authorized to operate, under the provisions of these regulations, in the Zone;

G.         Mutual insurance institutions: the insurance institutions that render their services, in form of mutual insurance, exclusively to their members;

H.          Insurance broking institution: a legal person that acts as an intermediary between the parties of insurance and /or reinsurance transactions in exchange for a commission and whose business is only to provide insurance services;

I.  Branch: a unit, affiliated to one of the Iranian insurance institutions, operating within the framework of functions and duties, and under the name and with the authorization of the principal institution in the zone;

        Insurance agency: a real or legal person undertaking some of the functions and duties of an         Iranian insurance institution, in the Zone, on the basis of an insurance agency contract and         provisions of these regulations