Section 16: Duty to surrender certificate on cancellation of policy.

Where a certificate of insurance has been delivered under the provisions of this Act to the person by whom a policy has been effected and the policy is cancelled by mutual consent or by virtue of any provision in the policy, the person to whom such certificate was delivered shall, within seven days from taking effect of the cancellation of such policy, surrender such certificate to the insurer or if such certificate has been lost or destroyed, make a statutory declaration to that effect and any person contravening the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.