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INSURANCE CONTRACTS ACT 1984 - SECT 45 "Other insurance" provisions

INSURANCE CONTRACTS ACT 1984 - SECT 45

"Other insurance" provisions

  (1)   Where a provision included in a contract of general insurance has the effect of limiting or excluding the liability of the insurer under the contract by reason that the insured has entered into some other contract of insurance, not being a contract required to be effected by or under a law, including a law of a State or Territory, the provision is void.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply in relation to a contract that provides insurance cover in respect of some or all of so much of a loss as is not covered by a contract of insurance that is specified in the first - mentioned contract.