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Further information Non-Disclosure
Should your complaint not be resolved to your If you fail to comply with your duty of disclosure and the
satisfaction by AIA Australia’s internal dispute resolution insurer would not have entered into the contract on any
process, you may take your complaint to the Australian terms if the failure had not occurred, the insurer may
Information Commissioner whose contact details are: avoid the contract within three years of entering into
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner it. If your non-disclosure is fraudulent, the insurer may
GPO Box 5218 avoid the contract at any time from its inception. An
Sydney NSW 2001 insurer who is entitled to avoid a contract of insurance
Phone: 1300 363 992 may, within three years of entering into it, elect not to
Web: www.oaic.gov.au avoid it, but to reduce the sum insured in accordance
with a formula that takes into account the premium that
would have been payable if you had disclosed all relevant
Your Duty of Disclosure
matters to the insurer.
Before you enter into a contract of insurance with an
insurer, you have a duty under the Insurance Contracts
Act 1984, to disclose to the insurer every matter that
you know, or could reasonably be expected to know,
which is relevant to the insurer’s decision whether to
accept the risk of the insurance and, if so, on what
terms.

You have the same duty to disclose those matters to
the insurer before you renew, extend, vary or reinstate a
contract of life insurance.
Your duty however does not require disclosure of a
matter:
• that diminishes the risk to be undertaken by AIA
Australia;

• that is of common knowledge;
• that AIA Australia knows or, in the ordinary course of
its business, ought to know;
• as to which compliance with your duty is waived by
the insurer.

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