Marine Insurance Act, 1963
21. Disclosure by agent effecting insurance
Subject to the
provisions of the preceding section as to circumstances which need not be
disclosed, where an 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.