The Savings Banks (Ordinary Deposits) (Limits) Order 1969

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, it shall not be lawful for the Postmaster General to receive a deposit from, or make a credit to an account of, any person by way of ordinary deposit, or for a trustee savings bank to receive a deposit from, or make a credit to an account of, any person by way of savings account deposit (as defined by section 1(3) of the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1964, in any case where the amount standing to the credit of that person by way of ordinary deposit in the Post Office Savings Bank or by way of savings account deposit in the trustee savings bank, whether solely or jointly with any other person, and whether the depositor has or has not more than one account by way of ordinary deposit in the Post Office Savings Bank or by way of savings account deposit in the trustee savings bank, as the case may be, exceeds, or would as a result of the receipt of the said deposit or the making of the said credit exceed, £10,000.

(2) The foregoing paragraph shall not operate to prevent—

(a) the transfer of an account from one trustee savings bank to another trustee savings bank; or

(b) the crediting to a depositor's account in any savings bank of—

(i) interest on deposits in any such account,

(ii) dividends on any Government stock or bonds held by him on the Post Office Register,

(iii) any sum accruing to him in respect of any savings bank annuity or insurance,

(iv) any sum transferred from the account of another depositor who has died.

(3) In computing for the purposes of this Order the amount standing to the credit of any person, whether solely or jointly with any other person and whether the depositor has or has not more than one account as aforesaid, there shall not be taken into account deposits made for the purpose of an immediate—

(a) investment in any Government stock or bonds, or

(b) loan, free of interest, to Her Majesty's Government.

(4) For the purposes of this Order, a person who is a trustee shall be treated separately in his personal capacity and in his capacity as trustee, and in the latter capacity separately in respect of each separate trust fund; and so much of the property in the hands of a trustee shall be treated as a separate trust fund as is held on trusts which (as respects the beneficiaries or their respective interests or the purposes of the trust or as respects the powers of the trustee) are not identical with those on which other property in his hands is held.

(5) In computing for the purposes of this Order the amount standing to the credit of any person, there shall not be taken into account any amounts received from a trustee on behalf of that person for an account in the joint names of the trustee and that person.