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Version status: Published
Version date: 30 April 2018 - onwards

37. List of factors which suggest potentially lower risk

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 26 April 2018 by Dáil Éireann

The Act of 2010 is amended by the insertion of the following Schedule after Schedule 2:

"Schedule 3 Non-exhaustive list of factors suggesting potentially lower risk

Section 34A

(1) Customer risk factors:

(a) public companies listed on a stock exchange and subject to disclosure requirements (either by stock exchange rules or through law or enforceable means), which impose requirements to ensure adequate transparency of beneficial ownership;

(b) public administrations or enterprises;

(c) customers that are resident in geographical areas of lower risk as set out in subparagraph (3).

(2) Product, service, transaction or delivery channel risk factors:

(a) life assurance policies for which the premium is low;

(b) insurance policies for pension schemes if there is no early surrender option and the policy cannot be used as collateral;

(c) a pension, superannuation or similar scheme that provides retirement benefits to employees, where contributions are made by way of deduction from wages, and the scheme rules do not permit the assignment of a member's interest under the scheme;

(d) financial products or services that provide appropriately defined and limited services to certain types of customers, so as to increase access for financial inclusion purposes;