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Banking Act 2009

Banking Act 2009

2009 CHAPTER 1

Commentary on Sections

Part 1: Special Resolution Regime.

Transfer of securities

Section 29: Reverse share transfer

79.Where the Treasury has made a share transfer order to bring a bank into temporary public ownership in accordance with section 13, it may make reverse share transfer orders.

80.A reverse share transfer order may transfer securities in temporary public ownership back to the original transferors (i.e. the holders of the shares and other securities before the bank was taken into temporary public ownership). Alternatively, where there has been an onward transfer to a particular type of onward transferee, the order may transfer securities back from that onward transferee into temporary public ownership. The reverse share transfer powers could only be used in the case of an onward transfer, however, where the onward transferee was a company wholly owned by the Bank of England, a company wholly owned by the Treasury or a nominee of the Treasury. This limitation is to prevent the reverse share transfer powers from being exercisable in relation to an onward transfer to a private sector party who wished to acquire the bank from temporary public ownership.

81.The general and specific conditions (sections 7 and 9, respectively) do not apply to reverse transfers. Subsection (6) provides that the Treasury must consult the Bank of England and the FSA before making the order.

82.Subsection (7) provides that the Treasury may make a supplemental share transfer order (as described in section 27) following the making of a reverse share transfer order.

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