131.—F193[(1) The Minister for Finance may, after consulting the Minister for the Environment and Local Government and the Bank, make a regulation requiring the disclosure to the borrower of specified information relating to any insurance commission, introduction fee or other inducement, charge or expense that may be payable to a person or retained by a person—

(a) because the borrower has taken out an insurance policy in connection with the making of a housing loan, or

(b) because of the making of such a loan.]

(2) Regulations under this section may in particular specify:

(a) the nature of the information to be disclosed, including information on the manner in which any commission, fee, or other inducement, charge or expense is to be determined, the amount or value of same and the arrangements for the payment or provision of same,

(b) the circumstances in which and the time at which the information is to be disclosed,

(c) the manner of disclosure of the information.

(3) (a) Subsection (2) is without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) and accordingly regulations under this section may make provision for matters other than those mentioned in subsection (2) or further provision as to any of the matters there mentioned.

(b) Regulations made under this section may:

(i) include such consequential, incidental, transitional or supplementary provisions as may be considered appropriate by the F193[Minister for Finance] to be necessary or proper for the purposes of this section;

(ii) apply either generally or by reference to a specified class or classes of loans, insurance, mortgage agents, or persons or by reference to any other matter that is considered appropriate by F193[that Minister].

(4) Where, in connection with the making of a housing loan, a mortgage lender or mortgage intermediary acts exclusively for a particular insurer, he shall at the first reasonable opportunity and in any event before any commitment is made by the borrower, disclose this fact to the borrower.

(5) Where, in connection with the making of a housing loan, a mortgage intermediary acts exclusively for a particular mortgage lender, he shall at the first reasonable opportunity and in any event before any commitment is made by the borrower, disclose this fact to the borrower.