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Version date: 1 January 2017 - onwards
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9. Prohibition of termination of, or refusal to renew, health insurance contracts.

9.

(1) A registered undertaking shall not terminate or (irrespective of whether or not the contract provides for its renewal) refuse to renew a health insurance contract without the consent of the other party to the contract except -

(a) where there has been fraudulent misrepresentation to the undertaking in relation to the contract which has, or could have, resulted in financial loss to the undertaking,

(b) where the undertaking ceases to carry on health insurance business in the State, or

(c) subject to subsections (2) to (5), where the undertaking has ceased to offer, in the State, health insurance contracts of the type of that contract.