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Contract for endowments and definition of insurance.
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3. The National Debt Commissioners may, subject to the limit in this Act mentioned, contract with any person for a payment to be made on the attainment by such person of a specified age, or sooner in case of his death, and the Government Annuities Acts, 1853 and 1864, as amended by this Act (including the provisions punishing false declaration, forgery, and other offences), shall apply in like manner, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, as if such contract for the payment of a sum of money on death; and a contract with a person under the said Acts as amended by this Act for either any such payment to him as above in this section specified, or for a payment at his death, is in this Act referred to as a savings bank insurance.
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