The National Savings Bank Regulations 1972

Declaration by depositor

4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, a depositor, on opening an account and whenever thereafter required so to do, shall specify his full name and his residence and, if required, the date of his birth and his occupation, and shall make and sign a declaration in the approved form as to the facts so specified, and, if required, furnish the Director of Savings with an additional specimen of his signature.

(2) Except where the depositor is to be or is described in the account as a trustee pursuant to Regulation 5(2) or 9 below, the declaration shall set forth the particulars of every other account the depositor already has in the National Savings Bank (including every joint account in which his name appears) other than accounts in which he is described as a trustee pursuant to Regulation 5(2) or accounts to which Regulation 9 applies.

(3) Where the account is opened or held by a trustee otherwise than under Regulation 9 below, the declaration shall set forth the particulars of every other account in the National Savings Bank to which are credited moneys belonging to the same trust fund as that to which the moneys credited or to be credited to the first mentioned account belong, and, for the purposes of this paragraph, moneys credited to an account in the name of a trustee shall be deemed to belong to the same trust fund as that to which belong other moneys credited or to be credited to another account in the name of that trustee, unless such first mentioned moneys are held by that trustee upon trusts which (as respects the beneficiaries, or their respective interests, or the purposes of the trust, or the powers of the trustee) differ from those on which such other moneys are held by him.

(4) Where the declaration is made by a trustee pursuant to Regulation 9(2) below, the declaration shall set forth the particulars of every other account in the National Savings Bank standing in his name (including every joint account under Regulation 9 or otherwise in which his name appears as a trustee) in respect of which he is a trustee for the same (and no other) beneficiary.

(5) This Regulation shall not apply to accounts opened by or under the authority of any statute or statutory instrument whereunder the making of the declaration is dispensed with, or to cases in which the Director of Savings shall direct that the making of the declaration is unnecessary.