PRELIMINARY

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the National Savings Stock Register Regulations 1976, and shall come into operation on 1st January 1977.

2 Interpretation
1 In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“approved” means approved by the Director of Savings;
“the Commissioners” means the National Debt Commissioners;
“mentally disordered person” in the application of these Regulations to England and Wales, means a person who is incapable, by reason of mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1959, of managing and administering his property and affairs;
“receiver”, in the application of these Regulations to England and Wales, means, in relation to any act or thing done in respect of a mentally disordered person, a receiver or other person authorised in that behalf under Part VIII of the Mental Health Act 1959;
“the register” means such part of the National Savings Stock Register as is kept by the Director of Savings;
“savings bank” means the National Savings Bank or a trustee savings bank;
“stock” means stock or securities registered in the register;
“Treasury Solicitor” means the Solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty's Treasury;
“trustee savings bank” means any trustee savings bank within the meaning of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1969.
2 Any reference in these Regulations to the provisions of any enactment shall be construed, unless the context otherwise requires, as a reference to those provisions as amended by any other enactment.
3 The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if these Regulations and the Regulations hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.