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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 609 Meaning of "bank"

(1) Regulation 6 of the Justices' Chief Executives (Accounts) Regulations 2001 (bank accounts) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (3) substitute -

"(3) In paragraph (1) "bank" means -

(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits;

(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to accept deposits.".

(3) After paragraph (3) insert -

"(3A) But where a person of the kind mentioned in paragraph (3) (a) is a building society within the meaning of the Building Societies Act 1986, it is not a bank for the purposes of paragraph (1) unless it may lawfully provide corporate banking services.

(3B) Paragraph (3) must be read with -

(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b) any relevant order under that section; and

(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.".

(4) In paragraph (4), for "subsection (3) (c)" substitute "paragraph (3) (b)".