Act Number: 4

Act Name: The Insurance Act, 1938

Year: 1938

Enactment Date: 1938-02-26

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the business of insurance.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Financial Services

Section 105: Wrongfully obtaining or withholding property.
    If any director, managing director, manager or other officer or employee of an insurer wrongfully obtains possession of any property or wrongfully applies to any purpose of the Act, he shall be liable to a penalty 1[not exceeding one crore rupees].
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 5 of 2015, s. 89, for "not exceeding two lakh rupees for each such failure" (w.e.f. 26-12-2014).
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