ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Marine Insurance Act
19. Disclosure by agent effecting insurance
Edition: 2023-12-11 · In force
19. Disclosure by agent effecting insurance
Subject to section 18 of this Act relating to circumstances which need not be disclosed, where a contract of marine insurance is effected for the assured by an agent, the agent must disclose to the insurer—(a)every material circumstance which is known to himself and an agent to insure is deemed to know every circumstance which in the ordinary course of business ought to be known by, or to have been communicated to, him; and(b)every material circumstance which the assured is bound to disclose, unless it comes to his knowledge too late to communicate it to the agent.