Post Office Savings Bank Act, 1861

Provisions in case of depositors desiring to transfer their deposits to another savings bank, &c.

Not necessary to have rules, &c. of savings banks again certified.

10. If any depositor making deposit under this Act shall desire to transfer the amount of such deposit to a savings bank established under the Acts relating to savings banks, he shall, upon application to the chief office of the Postmaster General, be furnished with a certificate stating the whole amount which may be due to him with interest, and thereupon his account under this Act shall be closed; and, upon delivery of such certificate to the trustees or managers of the savings bank to which it is proposed by the depositor to transfer such deposit, they shall, if they think fit, open an account for the amount stated in such certificate for such depositor, who shall thereupon be subject to the rules of such savings bank; and the amount so transferred shall, upon such certificate being forwarded to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, be written off in the books of the said Commissioners from the amount of monies received under the authority of this Act, and shall be carried to the account of the savings bank to which such transfer shall have been made; and in like manner, if any depositor in a savings bank established under the Savings Bank Acts shall desire to transfer the amount due to him, with interest, from such savings bank to the Postmaster General for deposit under the provisions of this Act, the trustees or managers of such savings bank shall, upon his request, furnish such depositor with a certificate, in a form to be approved by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, signed by two trustees of such savings bank, and thereupon his account with such savings bank shall be closed; which certificate the depositor may deliver to any officer of the Postmaster General authorized to receive deposits under this Act; and such certificate shall for the amount therein set forth be considered to be a deposit made under the authority of this Act, and being forwarded to the said Commissioners, the said amount shall then be transferred in the books of the said Commissioners from the account of the said savings bank to the credit of the account of monies deposited under the authority of this Act: Provided always, that nothing contained in this Act respecting savings banks shall render it necessary to have the rules and regulations of any savings bank again certified if the same have been before certified according to law.