Rule 19   RESERVES

A.  The Directors may establish and maintain such reserve funds or other accounts for such contingencies or purposes as they think fit.   

B. Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph [A] of this Rule the Directors may establish and maintain reserves or other accounts for one or more of the following specific purposes:

i. A “Catastrophe Reserve” to provide a source of funds which may be applied towards meeting any Overspill Claim or Claims whether occurring in the same or in any other policy year;

ii.  A “Contingency Reserve” to provide a source of funds which may be applied for any general purposes of the Association including the following:

(i)  to stabilize the level of Supplementary Calls and to eliminate or reduce the need to levy such Calls or any part thereof in respect of any policy year, past present or future;

(ii) to eliminate or reduce a deficiency which has occurred or may be thought likely to occur in respect of any closed policy year;

(iii) to protect the Association against any actual or potential losses on exchange, or in connection with its investments, realized or unrealized.

C.  The Directors may apply the sums standing to the credit of any reserve for any of the purposes for which the reserve was maintained even though the sum be paid in respect of any different policy year or years from that from which the funds originated.

The Directors may also apply the sums standing to the credit of any reserve for any other or different purposes whenever the Directors consider this to be in the interests of the Association or its Members. The Directors may also at any time transfer sums from one reserve to another.

D.  The funds required to establish such reserves or account may be raised in either or both of the following ways:

i. The Directors, when deciding on the rate of any Supplementary Call for any policy year, may resolve that any specified amount or proportion of such Call shall be transferred to and applied for the purposes of any such reserve or account;

ii. The Directors may on the closing of any policy year or at any time or times thereafter resolve that any specified amount or proportion of the funds standing to the credit of that policy year shall be transferred to and applied for the purposes of any such reserve or account.

E.  If the Directors shall resolve as set out in paragraph [D] [i] of this Rule, then the Managers shall inform the Members entered for such policy year on or before the time that payment is demanded.