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Article 8

Any insurance company or organisation for which the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture has refused to grant a licence for engaging in any branch of the insurance branches provided for in Article 4 of this Law, may file an appeal with the Minister against such refusal within a time limit of 60 days from the date of notifying it of such refusal by a registered letter. Further, an insurance company may in the event of dismissing its appeal expressly or implicitly by not replying thereto within sixty days from the date of filing it refer the matter to the High Civil Court seeking the revocation of the refusal decision within a period of sixty days commencing from the date of receiving an express notification to this effect or from the date of expiry of the sixty days without receiving a reply to the appeal.

An application for revocation shall be filed with the court by the usual methods set forth in the Civil and Commercial Procedures Act.

In case of filing an appeal and bringing legal action before the Court, the insurance company or organisation concerned shall, in case it exists in Bahrain on the effective date of this Law, continue to carry on business pending the final resolution of the appeal or legal action.