A life insurance term describing the insurer’s offer to provide new policies without further evidence of health. The offer is usually confined to existing policyholders.
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An option that permits the policy holder to buy additional stated amounts of life insurance at stated times in the future without evidence of insurability.

Minimum pension that a defined benefit scheme must provide as a condition of contracting out for pre-6 April 1997 service. GMP does not apply to money purchase contracted out schemes as the granting of protected rights is the relevant contracting out provision. Where all service is post-5 April 1997 the members’ benefits are protected by limited price indexation (LPI). Where service is pre- and post-5 April 1997, benefits are affected by GMP and LPI respectively.

The minimum pension a particular insurance policy will pay.

Mininimum period for which the payment of a pension or annuity is guaranteed regardless of the annuitant’s earlier death. If premature death occurs the insurer may be willing to pay the net present value of the annuity payments as a lump sum.

The minimum surrender value that an insurer will pay in the event of a life policy being surrendered. High guaranincrease the incidence of early cancellation of savings policies, such as endowments, meaning that insurers may have to invest in readily realisable assets such as fixed interest securities. tees may

In the context of certain hotels, e.g. inns, it is someone who books sleeping accommodation. The innkeeper becomes strictly liable for loss or damage to the property of a guest subject to the limitations introduced by the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956.

Property and effects belonging to, or the responsibility to guests, i.e. persons staying overnight at hotels and similar establishments. The proprietor of the establishment can insure the effects under a material damage policy or his legal liability for loss or damage.

Convention ruling that hijacking occurs when a person on board an aircraft has unlawfully committed, or is about to commit, by force or threat, an act of interference, seizure or other wrongful exercise of control of an aircraft in flight. The Convention required every ratifying state to introduce domestic legislation to acquire jurisdiction over the offence. The state that apprehends the offender may either extradite him or her or refer the case to its own prosecuting authority. See HIJACKING ACT 1971.

Updated the Warsaw Convention in 1955 by: extending protection to servants and agents sued by passengers dissatisfied with the Convention limits; removing some of the obstacles to claims in regard to matters such as details on tickets; removing the defence of pilot error and negligent navigation. The limit of liability to passengers doubled to 250,000 gold francs. The Protocol was introduced into the UK by the Carriage by Air Act 1961.

Drawn up following Brussels Protocol 1968 to replace the Hague Rules, 1924. They are appended as a Schedule to the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971. The rules have been adopted by several countries to establish a uniform code of carriage of goods by sea shipped under bills of lading.