The National Savings Bank Regulations 1972

Mentally disordered persons

7.—(1) Deposits may be made on behalf and in the name of a mentally disordered person by his receiver.

(2) On the opening of an account in the name of a mentally disordered person, a declaration in the approved form shall be made by his receiver, who shall specify the capacity in which he acts.

(3) Any application for the withdrawal of deposits standing in the name of a mentally disordered person, or any part thereof, shall be made by his receiver.

(4) Where a depositor is a mentally disordered person and there is no receiver by whom application for withdrawal of deposits standing in the depositor's name might be made, the Director of Savings may, if it is proved to his satisfaction that it is just and expedient so to do, pay the deposits, or any part thereof, to any person whom he shall judge proper to receive the same.