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Statutory Instruments

1986 No. 1223 (C. 36)

SAVINGS BANKS

The Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (Appointed Day) (No. 4) Order 1986

Made

14th July 1986

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 4(3), (4) and (5) of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985, hereby make the following Order:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 (Appointed Day) (No. 4) Order 1986.

(2) In this Order—

the Act” means the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985;

the 1981 Act” means the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981;

the 1978 Act” means the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1978;

the 1976 Act” means the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1976;

the 1969 Act” means the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1969;

the 1863 Act” means the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1863;

successor bank” means a bank which is the successor to an existing bank;

trustee savings bank” means a bank certified under the 1981 Act, the 1963 Trustee Savings Banks Act 1954 or the 1863 Act.

2.  21st July 1986 shall be the appointed day for the purposes of the repeal of the provisions of:—

(a)the 1981 Act which are set out in Schedule 1 to this Order, subject to the transitional and saving provisions hereinafter appearing; and

(b)the other enactments which are set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

3.  Notwithstanding the repeal of subsection (4) of section 2 of the 1981 Act the Registrar shall continue on and after the day appointed in Article 2 to be under a duty to retain all such certified copies of trustee savings banks' rules as are retained by him on that day.

4.  Notwithstanding the repeal of subsection (6) of section 5 of the 1981 Act the Registrar shall on and after the day appointed in Article 2 continue to be under a duty to retain all such certified copies of alterations of trustee savings banks' rules as are retained by him on that day.

5.  Notwithstanding the repeal of subsection (1) of section 16 of the 1981 Act the Registrar shall on and after the vesting day continue to retain in his custody the register of custodian trustees kept by him in respect of each trustee savings bank until the vesting day.

6.  Nothing in the repeal of section 26 of the 1981 Act shall affect the continued operation of that section in relation to any dispute which was referred in writing to the Registrar before the vesting day, but on and after the vesting day that section shall apply in relation to any such dispute as if any reference to a trustee savings bank or to the trustees of such a bank were or included (as the case requires) a reference to the successor bank.

7.  Nothing in the repeal of sections 27 and 28 of the 1981 Act shall affect the continued operation of any regulations made under either of those sections or any corresponding provisions of any earlier enactment relating to trustee savings banks but on and after the vesting day any such regulations shall apply as if any reference to a trustee savings bank or to the trustees of such a bank were or included (as the case requires) a reference to the successor bank.

8.  Notwithstanding the repeal of subsection (1) of section 29 of the 1981 Act, any funds which are pursuant to that subsection invested before the vesting day in the funds of a trustee savings bank may continue on and after the vesting day to be invested with the successor bank.

9.  Nothing in the repeal of subsection (2) of section 29 of the 1981 Act shall affect the continued operation of that subsection but on and after the vesting day the subsection shall apply as if any reference to a trustee savings bank or to the trustees or officers of such a bank were or included (as the case requires) a reference to the successor bank.

10.  Nothing in the repeal of section 49 shall affect the continued operation of that section or any warrant made thereunder in relation to any dispute to which the saving contained in Article 6 of this Order applies.

11.  Nothing in the repeal of paragraph 1(1)(a) and (c) of Schedule 2 to the 1981 Act or of sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) of paragraph 11 of that Schedule shall affect the continued operation of those provisions, with the exception, in sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 11 of that Schedule, of the words “(otherwise than by virtue of paragraph 4(b))” and with the exception, in sub-paragraph (5) of that paragraph, of the words from “and shall” to the end, but on and after the vesting day—

(a)any person who is a member of the Central Board immediately before the vesting day by virtue of having been appointed by an eligible trustee savings bank pursuant to paragraph 1(1)(a) shall vacate his office, if he is not on the vesting day, or if he at any time thereafter ceases to be, a director of the successor bank;

(b)the successor bank shall be empowered to appoint one member of the Central Board in place of a member vacating his ofice whether by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (c) of this Article;

(c)no person shall be appointed a member of the Central Board pursuant to sub-paragraph (b) of this Article unless he is also a director of the successor bank appointing him, and any person so appointed a member of the Central Board shall vacate his office if at any time he ceases to be a director of that bank;

(d)the successor bank may, in respect of the member appointed by the eligible trustee savings bank to which it is the successor bank and continuing in ofice pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) of this Article, or in respect of a member appointed by it pursuant to sub-paragraph (b) of this Article, appoint a person, being a director of the bank appointing him, to perform the duties of that member in his absence;

(e)the provisions of paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the 1981 Act specified above in this Article shall apply as if the reference in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph to a person appointed under sub-paragraph (1) were a reference to a person appointed under sub-paragraph (d) of this Article.

12.  Nothing in the repeals shall affect—

(a)the savings contained in paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act in relation to the repeal of sub-sections (3) and (4) in section 1 of the 1978 Act;

(b)the continued operation of the transitional provision contained in paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act on the effect of section 27(4) of that Act in its application in relation to any death occurring before 10th August 1975;

(c)the savings contained in paragraph 12(a) of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act in relation to the repeal of paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 5 to the 1976 Act;

(d)the savings contained in paragraph 13 of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act in relation to the repeal of section 23(1) of the 1976 Act, but so that as from the day appointed in Article 2 that paragraph shall apply as if there were inserted immediately after the word “shall” the words “in the hands of the new holding company”;

(e)the savings contained in paragraph 14(a) of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act and section 10(3) of the 1976 Act in relation to the repeal of section 11(4) of the 1969 Act;

(f)the savings contained in paragraph 14(c) of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act and sections 30(6) and 32(2) of the 1976 Act in relation to the repeal of any of sections 75 to 82 of the 1969 Act;

(g)the savings contained in paragraph 14(d) of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act and paragraphs 17 and 18 of Schedule 5 to the 1976 Act in relation to the repeal of section 19(2)(b) of, and paragraph 65 of Schedule 2 to, the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971;

(h)the savings contained in paragraph 15(a) of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act, with the exception of the words “unless and until that bank becomes a trustee savings bank”, on the application of an Act passed in the 59th year of the reign of King George the Third intituled an Act for the Protection of Banks for Savings in Scotland(1) to any savings bank established under that Act before 28th July 1863;

(i)the savings contained in paragraph 15(b) of Schedule 7 to the 1981 Act and section 12 of the Savings Banks Act 1949 in relation to the repeal of section 12 of the 1863 Act.

13.  Nothwithstanding the repeal of the words from “or in” to “1981” in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 46 of the Friendly Societies Act 1974 and in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 39 of the Friendly Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1970, any funds which are pursuant to either of those subsection invested on the vesting day in a trustee savings bank may continue after the vesting day to be invested with the successor bank.

Tim Sainsbury

Nigel Lawson

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

14th July 1986

Article 2(a)

SCHEDULE 1REPEAL OF THE TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS ACT 1981

ChapterShort titleExtent of repeal
1981 c.65.Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981.

Sections 1, 2, 3(1) and (2), 4, 5, 6(1), 7(3), (5) and (6).

Sections 8 to 11.

In section 13, the words “to the Central Board and” and the words “, and shall furnish such particulars of that person as the Central Board may direct”.

Sections 14, 15(1) to (8) and (11), 16(1), (3) and (4), 17, 18, 19(1) to (4), 20, 21 and 22.

In section 25(1), the words “to the Central Board and”.

Section 25(2).

Sections 26 to 50.

Section 52.

Section 55(1) and (3).

Schedule 1.

In Schedule 2, paragraph 1(1)(a) and (c), (3) and (4) and paragraphs 4, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Schedules 4 and 6.

In Schedule 7 paragraphs 5 to 8, 9(1) and 11, paragraph 12 insofar as not previously repealed and paragraphs 13 to 15.

Schedule 8.

Article 2(b)

SCHEDULE 2REPEAL OF OTHER ENACTMENTS SPECIFIED IN SCHEDULE 4 TO THE TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS ACT 1985

ChapterShort titleExtent of repeal
42 &43 Vict. c.11.Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879.In section 9(1), paragraph (b).
46 &47 Vict. c.1.Consolidated Fund (Permanent Charges Redemption) Act 1883.In section 2(1), the words “trustee savings banks and”.
50 &51 Vict. c.40.Savings Banks Act 1887.In section 10, the words “or to trustee savings banks”.
4 &5 Geo. 5. c.59.Bankruptcy Act 1914.In section 33(9), the words “or of section 45 of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981”.
18 &19 Geo. 5. c.43.Agricultural Credits Act 1928.In section 5(7), in the definition of “Bank”, the words from “a trustee savings” to “1981”.
19 &20 Geo.5. c.13.Agricultural Credits (Scotland) Act 1929.In section 9(2), in the definition of “Bank” the words from “a trustee savings” to “1981”.
19 &20 Geo. 5. c.29.Government Annuities Act 1929.Section 51(2).
8 &9 Eliz.2. c.37.Payment of Wages Act 1960.In section 7(6), paragraph (a).
1960 c.22 (N.I.).Companies Act (Northern Ireland) 1960.

In section 348, the words from “any trustee” to “1981, and”.

Section 349(8).

9 &10 Eliz.2. c.62.Trustee Investments Act 1961.In section 17(3), the words “and to trustee savings banks”.
9 &10 Eliz.2. C.A.M. No.3.Clergy Pensions Measure 1961.In section 32, in subsection (1) in paragraph (b) the words “ordinary deposits in a trustee savings bank” and in paragraph (m) the words from “by way of special investment” to “savings bank or” and in subsection (8) the definitions of “ordinary deposits” and “special investment”.
10 &11 Eliz.2. c.37.Building Societies Act 1962.In section 59(5), the words “trustee savings bank or other”.
1965 c.32.Administration of Estates (Small Payments) Act 1965.

In section 5(1) the words “or to section 27(4) of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981”.

In section 6(3), the words “or section 28 of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981”.

1967 c.31. (N.I.)Building Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1967.In section 59(5), the words “trustee savings bank or other”.
1970 c.12.(N.I.)Payment of Wages Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.In section 7(5), paragraph (a).
1970 c.31.(N.I.)Friendly Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1970.

In section 39(1)(b), the words from “or in” to “1981”.

In section 39(5) the words from “or on” to “bank” and “or them”.

1973 c.36Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.In Schedule 3, paragraph 20.
1974 c.9.Pensions (Increase) Act 1974.In section 6(2), paragraph (b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it.
1974 c.46.Friendly Societies Act 1974.

In section 46(1)(a), the words from “or in” to “1981”.

In Section 46(3), the words from “or on” to “bank” and “or them”.

1974 c.47Solicitors Act 1974.In section 87(1), in the definition of “bank”, paragraph (c) and the word “and” immediately preceding it.
S.I. 1976/1212 (N.I. 21).Financial Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.In Article 15, the words “Trustee Savings Banks”.
1978 c.27..Home Purchase Assistance and Housing Corporation Guarantee Act 1978.In the Schedule, paragraph 6.
1979 c.34.Credit Unions Act 1979.Section 31(1)(b) in the definition of “authorised bank”.
1979 c.37.Banking Act 1979.

In section 36, in subsection (1) paragraphs (d) and (e) and in subsection 5(c) the words “either a trustee savings bank or”.

In section 50(1), the definition of “trustee savings bank”.

In Schedule 1, in paragraph 4, the words “A trustee savings bank or” and, in paragraph 12, the words “a trustee savings bank”.

1980 c.46.Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980.Section 35(2)(b).
1981 c.38.British Telecommunications Act 1981.In section 67(4)(c), the words “or a trustee savings bank”.
S.I. 1981/156 (N.I. 3).Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.In Schedule 10, paragraph 3.
S.I. 1982/1534 (N.I. 17).Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1982.Article 72(5)(a)(ii).
1980 c.6.Companies Act 1985.

In section 665, the words from “any trustee” to “banks and”.

Section 666(6).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order appoints 21st July 1986 as the date for the repeal of those provisions of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981 which are set out in Schedule 1 to the Order, subject to the transitional and savings provisions which are contained in Articles 3 to 13 of the Order. The Order also appoints 21st July 1986 as the date for the repeal of those other enactments specified in Schedule 4 to the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1985 which have not already been repealed and which are set out in Schedule 2 to the Order.

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