First Stage Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means Lapsed The bill’s status — click for what it means 26th Seanad The House currently handling the bill 49/2023 Official bill number / year
Consumer Insurance Contracts (Amendment) Bill 2023
- Sponsor
- Barry Ward · Fine Gael
- Introduced
- 1 Jun 2023
- Last updated
- 30 Jan 2025
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Amends the 2019 Consumer Insurance Contracts Act to ban insurance providers from using average clauses in policies.
- Average clauses reduce payouts if insured value is less than property's actual value; this bill prevents that practice.
- Bill lapsed at First Stage; no changes to consumer insurance law resulted from this proposal.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 26th Seanad1 Jun 2023
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