SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18Amendments of Enactments

PART IUnited Kingdom

Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c.80)

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1

This paragraph amends the [1971 c. 80.] Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 as follows.

2

In section 2(1) (power to suspend financial dealings on bank holidays) after paragraph (g) there shall be inserted—

; and

h

a direction that, subject as aforesaid; no building society shall, on that day, except with permission so granted, effect in the course of its business any transaction or, according as may be specified in the order, a transaction of such kind as may be so specified.

3

In section 2(6) after the definition of "authorised dealer in gold " there shall be inserted—

  • " building society " means a building society within the meaning of the Building Societies Act 1986.