(a) Whenever, pursuant to the laws of this Commonwealth or any local law, a demonstration of financial responsibility is required as a condition for obtaining a license or permit to undertake specified activities, if any such requirement may be satisfied only by obtaining insurance coverage from an admitted insurer or nonadmitted insurer that qualifies as an eligible surplus lines insurer, such requirement may not be satisfied by purchasing insurance from a risk retention group not chartered and licensed in this Commonwealth or through a purchasing group which has purchased coverage from a risk retention group not chartered and licensed in this Commonwealth.

(b) Any risk retention group and any insurer who transacts the business of insurance in this Commonwealth with a purchasing group or its members shall not be exempt from the policy form or coverage requirements of 75 Pa.C.S. Ch. 17 (relating to financial responsibility).