72.—(1) Subject to any order for the time being in force under paragraph (4), this Article applies to the following accounts, namely—
(a)any deposit account with a bank or other deposit‐taking institution; and
(b)any withdrawable share account with any deposit‐taking institution.
(2) In determining whether, for the purposes of the jurisdiction of the Office to attach debts for the purpose of satisfying judgements or orders for the payment of money, a sum standing to the credit of a person in an account to which this Article applies is a sum due or accruing to that person and, as such, attachable in accordance with rules, any condition mentioned in paragraph (3) which applies to the account shall be disrgarded.
(3) Those conditions are—
(a)any condition that notice is required before any money or share is withdrawn;
(b)any condition that a personal application must be made before any money or share is withdrawn;
(c)any condition that a deposit book or share‐account book must be produced before any money or share is withdrawn; or
(d)any other condition prescribed by rules.
(4) The Lord Chancellor may by order make such provision as he thinks fit, by way of amendment of this Article or otherwise, for all or any of the following purposes, namely—
(a)including in, or excluding from, the accounts to which this Article applies accounts of any description specified in the order;
(b)excluding from the accounts to which this Article applies all accounts with any particular deposit‐taking institution in the order specified or with any deposit‐taking institution of a description specified in the order.
(5) Any order under paragraph (4) shall be subject to [F2negative resolution].
(6) In this Article “deposit‐taking institution” means any person carrying on a business which is a deposit‐taking business for the purposes of the Banking Act 1979.]
F2Words in art. 72(5) substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 15(5), Sch. 18 para. 125 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)