The National Savings Bank (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Savings Bank (Amendment) Regulations 2013.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 22nd February 2013.

(3) Regulations 2(b) and 3 come into force on 6th April 2013.

Amendment to the National Savings Bank Regulations 1972

2.  The National Savings Bank Regulations 1972(1) are amended as follows—

(a) after regulation 2E (investment accounts not to be opened) insert—

“Closure of certain individual savings accounts

2F.— (1) No deposit may be made in a relevant ISA after 24th May 2013.

(2) On or after 25th May 2013, the Director of Savings may transfer the whole amount standing to the credit of a depositor in a relevant ISA to a Direct ISA opened in the name of that depositor.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the “whole amount standing to the credit of a depositor in a relevant ISA” shall include any interest that has accrued in respect of the relevant ISA before the date of transfer.

(4) In this regulation—

“Direct ISA” means an individual savings account for which terms and conditions have been set pursuant to section 9A(1) of the National Savings Bank Act 1971(2);

“relevant ISA” means an individual savings account other than a Direct ISA.”;

(b) in regulation 29L (deposits to individual savings accounts), in paragraph 2(a), omit “and ordinarily resident”; and

(c) in regulation 29P (payment on withdrawals from individual savings accounts), after paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) The Director of Savings may not give effect to a request for payment to be made in cash if the request is received by the Director of Savings after 22nd February 2013.”.

Amendment to the National Savings Bank (Investment Deposits) (Limits) Order 1977

3.  In the National Savings Bank (Investment Deposits) (Limits) Order 1977(3), in article 3B, for “£5,640”, substitute “£5,760”.

Mark Lancaster

Robert Goodwill

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

9th January 2013