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Version date: 31 December 2014 - onwards

48G. Priority between creditors

(1) The Treasury may, for the purpose of ensuring that the treatment of liabilities in any instrument that contains special bail-in provision is aligned to an appropriate degree with the treatment of liabilities on an insolvency, by order specify matters or principles to which the Bank of England is to be required to have regard in making any such instrument.

(2) An order may, for example, specify the insolvency treatment principles (as defined in section 48E(4)) or alternative principles.

(3) An order may specify the meaning of "insolvency" for one or more purposes of the order.

(4) An order may amend sections 44C(4) and 48E(4).

(5) An order -

(a) is to be made by statutory instrument, and

(b) may not be made unless a draft has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.