CO129-567-10 Companies Amendment Ordinance- draft bill 15-9-1938 - 28-9-1938 — Page 84

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The expression Committee as applied to the estate of a person of unsound mind means as well the Committee of the estate of a lunatic so found by inquisition as any receiver or other person directed by the Judge in Lunacy to exercise with respect to the estate or property of a lunatic not so found powers similar to those of a Com- mittee, and includes any person appointed by the Judge of a County Court to realise the property of a lunatic.

The expression Trustee Savings Bank means a Savings Bank to which the Trustees Savings Banks Act, 1863, (a) extends.

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The expression "Solicitor to the Treasury means the Solicitor for the Affairs of His Majesty's Treasury.

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The expression prescribed" means prescribed for the time being by the Postmaster-General.

The rules contained in, and the meanings assigned by the Interpretation Act, 1889, (b) shall apply to expressions used in these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears. 3. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of October, 1921, on and from which date the Post Office Savings Bank Regulations, 1910, (c) the Post Office Savings Bank Amendment (No. 1) Regulations, 1911, (d) the Post Office Savings Bank Amendment (No. 2) Regulations, 1912, (e) and the Post Office Savings Bank Amendment (No. 3) Regula- tions, 1918, (f) are hereby repealed, subject nevertheless to the exceptions contained in Regulation 76 hereof, and without pre- judice nevertheless to anything already done in pursuance of such Regulations.

4.-(1) The following Post Offices shall be Savings Bank Offices :-

(a) All Post Offices which are Savings Bank Offices at the

date of these Regulations.

(b) All other Post Offices which the Postmaster-General

may hereafter appoint to be Savings Bank Offices. (2) The Postmaster-General may authorise and direct any of his officers to transact Savings Bank business otherwise than at a Post Office, and for the purpose of these Regulations any officer so authorised shall be included in the term Savings Bank Office.

(3) The Postmaster-General may at any time direct that any Savings Bank Office shall cease to be such.

(4) Savings bank business shall be transacted at a Savings Bank Office on such days and during such hours as the Post- master-General may direct.

(5) Where Savings Bank business is transacted at British Post Offices in Foreign Countries, deposits shall be received from British subjects only.

a) 26-7 V. c. 87.

(c) S.R. & O., 1910, No. 569. (e) S.R. & O., 1912, No. 1781.

52-3 V. c. 63.

(d) S.R. & O., 1911. No. 1103. (f) S.R. & O., 1918, No. 607.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS,

1926, No. 1034.

SAVINGS BANK,

Post Office Savings Banks.

THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK AMENDMENT (No. 1) REGULATIONS, 1926. DATED JULY 27, 1926.

I, His Majesty's Postmaster-General, under and by virtue of all powers and authorities vested in me in that behalf by the Post Office Savings Bank Acts, 1861 to 1920, or otherwise, do, with the consent of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, make the following Regulations, that is to say :-

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Post Office Savings Short title. Bank Amendment (No. 1) Regulations, 1926.

2. These Regulations shall be read as one with the Post Office Regulations Savings Bank Regulations, 1921(a) (hereinafter referred to as

the Principal Regulations ").

to be read with

Principal Regulations.

to be

8. (1) Every nominator shall, on making the nomination, Particulars furnish to the Postmaster-General in the prescribed manner full particulars of any deposit account, Stock on the Government Nominator

furnished by Stock Register of the Post Office Savings Bank, and Savings Bank to Post- Annuity or Insurance to which the nomination applies.

(2) Every Nominator shall. if and whenever the deposit account to which a Nomination applies is closed and a fresh deposit account is opened or a change occurs either in the Nominator's holding of Stock or in relation to any Savings Bank Annuity or Insurance held by him to which the Nomination applies, make such corrections in and additions to the partien- lars furnished on making the Nomination as may be necessary, and shall forthwith forward to the Postmaster-General the amended particulars.

(3) Where, by reason of the failure of a Nominator to comply with the foregoing requirements of this Regulation, any money payable in respect of all or any of the deposits, Stock, Annuity, or Insurance of the Nominator at the date of his death is paid to (a) S.R. & O. 1921, No. 1532.

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