Fees

​Full details of the fees payable under the Insurance Laws (and other legislation administered by the Commission appear in the Financial Services Commission (Fees) Regulations, 2012 and The Protected Cell Companies and Incorporated Cell Companies (Fees for Insurers) Regulations, 2012, but for ease of reference a summary is shown in the table below.

Regulatory Fees with effect from 1 January 2013

 

Application Fees

 

 
​Type  Fee               

Insurance Manager

​£   4,785

​​Insurer/Reinsurer/Captive

£   5,140

​​Protected Cell Company (PCC)

​£   5,140

​Incorporated Cell Company (ICC)

£   5,140

​Cell of a PCC

£   1,450

​Cell of an ICC

£   1,450

​Domestic Insurer

​£   2,895

​Intermediary

£   4,835

​Additional Category of Intermediary Licence

​General - Personal Lines

£     173

​General - Commercial

£     336

​Long Term - Life

£     336

​Long Term - Regular Premium

£     510

​Long Term - Single Premium (Insurance Element)i

£  1,660

Annual Fees

 
Type ​Fee

​Insurance Manager

Dependent on the nature of the companies under managementii

​Pure

£  4,540

​Commercial

£  7,600

​Insurer/Reinsurer/Captive

​£  5,140

​Protected Cell Company (PCC)

​General business

£  5,140

​Incorporated Cell Company (ICC)

​General business

£  5,140

​​Cell of a PCC

£  1,680

​Cell of an ICC

£  1,680

​Transformer Cell

​See noteiii

£     765

​Dormant Cell

£     135

​Life Insurer (including PCC or ICC)

​Based on net policyholder liabilitiesiv

​Less than £1

£  5,140

​​£1- £999,999

£  6,670

£1m - £9,999,999

£  8,190

​£10m - £99,999,999

£12,740

​£100m+

​£20,325

​Domestic

​Based on gross premium incomev

​£0 - £11,999

£     430

​£12,000+

£  2,895

​Intermediary

​Base Fee

£  2,335

​Licence Fee (payable for each category held)

​General - Personal Lines

£     173

​General - Commercial

£     336

​Long Term - Life

£     336

​Long Term - Regular Premium

£     510

​Long Term - Single Premium (Insurance element)i

£   1,660

​Long Term - Single Premium (POI element)vi

£   1,020

​Turnover from Licensed Bailiwick activity

​£0 - £249,999

£   1,650

​£250,000 - £499,999

£   2,500

​£500,000 - £749,000

£   3,305

​£750,000 - £999,999

​£   4,141

​£1m - £1,999,999

£   4,967

​£2m - £2,999,999

£   5,803

​£3m+

£   6,630

 

Other Fees

 
Conversion from captive to PCC or ICC, or vice versa, or conversion from PCC to ICC including formation of first cell when business to be written in that cell is business previously written in the captive.    £970
 
Reactivation of a dormant cell.    £1,680 minus £135 pro-rata'd to the end of the year 
 
 
Application for consent to a scheme for the transfer of long term business.    £1,020
 
 

Notes 

 
All annual fees are due by 31st January each year for licences/ authorisations in effect on 1st January of that year.
 
Applicants will be invoiced for a pro-rata annual fee on licence issue in respect of the annual fee payable for the year in which the licence is granted.
  1. Fee payable in respect of the Insurance Licence.
  2. A fee of £7,600 will be due unless the insurance manager demonstrates to the Commission before the fee is due that each insurer for which he acts underwrites only the risks of the insurer's parent, subsidiaries of the insurer's parent, a joint venture where the risks underwritten by the insurer are limited to the equity interest held by the insurer's parent in that company or risks which are fully reinsured by the insured and the insurer's parent, where the parent is an insurance company.
  3. For the avoidance of doubt, transformer cells are cells within a Protected Cell Company whose primary purpose is to enable transactions between the Capital and Insurance markets by converting contracts written on ISDA documentation into contracts written on traditional insurance documentation or vice versa.
     
  4. For a Life Insurer closed to new business, the annual fees are:
    Based on net policyholder liabilities                     
    ​Fee         
    ​Less than £1
    £   5,140
    ​£1 - £9,999,999
    £   6,660
    ​£10m - £99,999,999                          
    ​£   8,945
    ​£100m+
    £ 12,740
     
  5. Non-commercial mutual, provident or friendly societies pay a fee of £430.
     
  6. Fee payable where licensed under the POI Law for either or both of the restricted activities of promotion, advising and no other restricted activities in respect of "Category 1: Collective Investment Schemes."
Guernsey Financial Services Commission