Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No. 31 of 2007 LRS 901 Transitional Arrangements 2008 (Cth)
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) (reporting standard) determination No.31 of 2007
Reporting standard LRS 901 Transitional Arrangements 2008
Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001
I, John Roy Trowbridge, Member of APRA, delegate of APRA, under paragraph 13(1)(a) of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (the Act) DETERMINE Reporting Standard LRS 901 Transitional Arrangements 2008 in the form set out in the Schedule, which applies to the financial sector entities referred to in paragraph 2 of the reporting standard.
Under section 15 of the Act, I DECLARE that the reporting standard shall begin to apply to those financial sector entities on 1 January 2008.
Dated 6 December 2007
[Signed]
John Trowbridge
Member
Interpretation
In this determination:
APRA means the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.
Schedule
Reporting Standard LRS 901 Transitional Arrangements 2008 comprises the 67 pages commencing on the following page.
Reporting Standard LRS 901
Transitional Arrangements 2008
Objective of this reporting standard
This reporting standard is made under section 13 of the Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001 (Collection of Data Act). It requires all registered life insurance companies and friendly societies to report to APRA, as a transitional measure, data that was required to be submitted to APRA quarterly under the Prudential Rules.
This standard will only apply for the transitional period from 1 January 2008 to 31 March 2008. This means life companies and friendly societies will be required to report this data concurrently with data required to be reported under new reporting standards.
This reporting standard outlines the overall requirements for the provision of relevant information to APRA.
Purpose
Information collected in Attachment A and Attachment B to this reporting standard is used by APRA for the purpose of prudential supervision, including assessing compliance with prudential standards and actuarial standards where appropriate. It may also be used by the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
Application
This reporting standard applies to all life companies including friendly societies (together referred to as life companies) registered under the Life Insurance Act 1995 (Life Insurance Act).
Information required
A life company (not including friendly societies) must provide APRA with the information required by Attachment A for each quarterly reporting period in the transitional period.
A friendly society must provide APRA with the information required by Attachment B to this reporting standard for each quarterly reporting period in the transitional period.
The information required to be provided to APRA under this reporting standard is not intended to form part of the financial statements or the annual returns, within the meaning of section 124 of the Life Insurance Act, given by the life company to APRA.
Method of submission
The information required by this reporting standard must be given to APRA either in electronic form or by manually completing Attachment A and Attachment B (as appropriate) on paper and mailing the completed form to APRA
Reporting periods and due dates
Subject to paragraph 8, a life company or friendly society must provide the information required by this reporting standard in unaudited form in respect of each quarter ending within the transitional period based on the financial year of the life company.
APRA may, by notice in writing, change the reporting periods, or specified reporting periods, for a particular life company or friendly society, to require it to provide the information required by this reporting standard more frequently, or less frequently, having regard to:
(a)the particular circumstances of the life company or friendly society;
(b)the extent to which the information is required for the purposes of the prudential supervision of the life company; or
(c)the requirements of the Reserve Bank of Australia or the Australian Bureau of Statistics or the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
The quarterly information required by this reporting standard in unaudited form must be provided to APRA within six weeks after the end of the reporting period to which the information relates.
APRA may grant a life company or friendly society an extension of a due date in writing, in which case the new due date for the provision of the information will be the date on the notice of extension.
Authorisation
If the statistics are given to APRA in paper form they must be signed by, and if the statistics are given to APRA in electronic form they must include a statement stating that they have been approved by the principal executive officer or chief financial officer of the life company or friendly society.
Minor alterations to forms and instructions
APRA may make minor variations to:
(a)a form that is part of this reporting standard, and the instructions to such a form, to correct technical, programming or logical errors, inconsistencies or anomalies; or
(b)the instructions to a form, to clarify their application to the form
without changing any substantive requirement in the form or instructions.
If APRA makes such a variation it must notify in writing each life company that is required to report under this reporting standard.
Interpretation
In this Reporting Standard:
reporting period means a reporting period under paragraph 7 or, if applicable, paragraph 8;
principal executive officer means the principal executive officer of the life company for the time being, by whatever name called, and whether or not he or she is a member of the governing board of the entity.
Attachment A
Schedule 1 – Form A
Statement of Assets
Statement of Assets
Schedule 1 – Form B
Assets by Country of Asset
Assets by Country of Asset
Schedule 1 – Form C
Controlled entities and unit trusts
Controlled Financial Entities
Other Controlled Entities
Controlled Unit Trusts
Schedule 1 – Form D
Controlled Unit Trusts
Derivatives
Derivatives that Increase Asset Exposure
Derivatives that Reduce Asset Exposure
Other Derivative Contracts
Schedule 1 – Form E
Other Derivative Contracts
Currency Risk
Currency Risk
Schedule 1 – Form F
Large Exposures
Large Exposures
Schedule 1 – Form G
Interest Rate Risk
Interest Rate Risk
Schedule 1 – Form H
Contingent Assets and Liabilities
Contingent Assets and Liabilities
Schedule 1 – Form J
Adjusted Asset Exposures
Adjusted Asset Exposures
Schedule 1 – Form K
Current Termination Values
Current Termination Values - Australia
Current Termination Values - Overseas
Schedule 1 – Form L
Asset Reconciliation Form
Asset Reconciliation
Schedule 1 – Form M
Credit Risk Form
Credit Risk
Attachment B
[t1]Refer to my comments in the covering email to Allan Watts
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