Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Presumption of receipt

• 1010 (1) A notice or document sent by mail in accordance with section 1008 to a shareholder, member, policyholder or director is deemed to be received by that person at the time it would be delivered in the ordinary course of mail unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that person did not receive the notice or document at that time or at all.

• Marginal note:Undelivered notices

  (2) If a company, a society, a foreign company, a provincial company or an insurance holding company sends a notice or document to a shareholder, member or policyholder in accordance with section 1008 and the notice or document is returned on three consecutive occasions because the shareholder, member or policyholder cannot be found, the company, society, foreign company, provincial company or insurance holding company is not required to send any further notices or documents to the shareholder, member or policyholder until informed in writing of that person’s new address.