Repealed or not in force
The Emergency Risks (Undertakings) Insurance Act, 1971
18 sections · As amended up to 2026-08
Sections
- 0Section 0
- I — PRELIMINARY
- 1Short title, extent and duration
- II — EMERGENCY RISKS (UNDERTAKINGS) INSURANCE SCHEME
- 3Emergency Risks (Undertakings) Insurance Scheme
- 4Employment of agents by the Central Government
- 5Duty of owners of undertakings to insure against emergency risks
- 6Restrictions on carrying on certain insurance business
- 7Emergency Risks (Undertakings) Insurance Fund
- III — MISCELLANEOUS
- 8Power of Central Government to obtain information
- 9Punishment for giving false information
- 10Payment towards cost of removal and reconstruction of insurable property
- 11Determination of premiums unpaid
- 12Limitation on prosecutions
- 13Composition of offences
- 14Bar of legal proceedings
- 15Power to exempt undertakings
- 16Refund of premiums in certain cases
- 17Removal of doubts
- 18Notification under section 15 to be laid before Parliament