Anyone claiming to have lost, destroyed or stolen a life insurance contract or policy, or a capitalisation or savings certificate or contract, where the security is to order or bearer, must notify the insurance, capitalisation or savings company at its registered office by registered letter or electronic registered letter, with acknowledgement of receipt. The receiving company will acknowledge receipt to the sender, in the same form, within eight days of delivery at the latest; at the same time, it will notify the sender that, as a precautionary measure and without prejudice to the rights of the parties, he must pay the premiums or contributions due on the due date, should the third party bearer fail to pay them, in order to preserve the full and complete effect of the opposed contract.
The declaration referred to in the previous paragraph entails opposition to the payment of the capital and all ancillary benefits.