Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, nothing in this Act shall exempt any body corporate from any statutory provision relating to the carrying on of the business of banking.
(1)This Act shall extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(2)In the application of this Act to Scotland the following provisions shall have effect:—
(a)In the construction of this Act—
“assignment” includes an assignation;
“bailee” includes a custodian, and “contract of bailment” includes any other contract regulating custody of things;
“convey” includes the execution of any deed or other instrument or document by which any property, or any estate, interest, security or other right in or over property, is constituted, completed, disponed, assigned, transmitted or discharged;
“debenture” includes a floating charge or instrument containing a floating charge;
“forfeiture” includes an irritancy;
“judgment” includes a decree;
“judicial trustee” includes a judicial factor;
“mortgage” includes a standard security, an assignation or disposition ex facie absolute and any agreement qualifying the same, a bond and disposition or assignation in security, a cash credit bond and disposition or assignation in security, an assignation in security and any real right or burden of whatever kind in the nature of a security whether or not constituted in respect of a heritable security;
“will” includes a trust disposition and settlement and any deed taking effect on the death of any person whereby any part of his estate is disposed of, or under which a succession thereto arises;
(b)All standard securities and cash credit bonds and dispositions or assignations in security expressed to be in favour of a transferor bank vested in AIB NI by or under this Act shall, on and from the appointed day, have the same effect in favour of AIB NI up to such maximum amounts as may be stated therein respectively in all respects as if they had been originally granted in favour of AIB NI for such maximum amounts;
(c)To enable AIB NI to complete a title, if thought fit, to any property vested in it by virtue of this Act by notice of title or otherwise, or to deduce title, this Act shall be deemed to be, and may be used as, a general disposition, conveyance or, as the case may be, assignation of such property in favour of AIB NI;
(d)For the reference in subsection (2) of section 8 (Evidence: books and documents) of this Act to section 10 of the [1964 c. 64.] Civil Evidence Act 1968 there shall be substituted reference to section 17 of the [1968 c. 70.] Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968.
(3)In the application of this Act to Northern Ireland—
(a)for the reference in subsection (2) of section 8 (Evidence: books and documents) of this Act to section 10 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 there shall be substituted reference to section 6 of the [1971 c. 36 (N.I.)] Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971;
(b)the references in subsection (3) of section 10 (Evidence of vesting) of this Act to the [1963 c. 18.] Stock Transfer Act 1963 shall include references to the [1963 c. 24 (N.I).] Stock Transfer Act (Northern Ireland) 1963; and for the reference in subsection (9) of that section to the [1925 c. 20.] Law of Property Act 1925 there shall be substituted reference to the [1881 c. 41.] Conveyancing Act 1881.
The costs, charges and expenses preliminary to, and of and incidental to, the preparing for, obtaining and passing of this Act, or otherwise in relation thereto, shall be paid by AIB and may in whole or in part be paid out of revenue.