rendering services as intermediary definition

rendering services as intermediary means the performance by a person other than a long-term insurer or a policyholder, on behalf of a long-term insurer or a policyholder, of any act directed towards entering into, maintaining or servicing a policy or collecting, accounting for or paying premiums or providing administrative services in relation to a policy, and includes the performance of such an act in relation to a fund, a member of a fund and the agreement between the member and the fund;