Savings Bank Act, 1893

Interpretation of terms.

26 & 27 Vict. c. 87.

10 Geo. 4. c. 24.

43 & 44 Vict. c. 36.

5. (1) In this Act—

The expression “savings bank” includes both a trustee savings bank and a Post Office savings bank, but no other savings bank.

The exprssion “trustee savings bank” means a bank certified under the Trustee Savings Banks Act, 1863.

The expression “savings bank year” means, with reference to a trustee savings bank, the year ending on the twentieth day of November, and with reference to the Post Office savings bank the year ending on the thirty-first day of December.

The expression “savings bank authority” means as regards any trustee savings bank the trustees of that bank, and as regards the Post Office savings bank the Postmaster-General.

The expressions “savings bank annuity” and “savings bank insurance,” means respectively an annuity and an insurance purchased or paid under the Government Annuities Acts, 1829 to 1887, through the medium of a savings bank.

(2) The expression “Government stock” in this Act and in the Savings Banks Act, 1880, shall mean the classes of stock mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act.