Savings Bank Act, 1844

SAVINGS BANK ACT 1844

CHAPTER LXXXIII.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks [1] [9th August 1844.]

[Preamble recites 9 Geo. 4. c. 92; 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 14.]

[Whole Act except ss. 1, 14, 15 rep. 54 & 55 Vict. c. 67. (S.L.R.)

[1Short title, “The Savings Banks Act, 1844.” See 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10.

The whole Act is rep. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 87. s. 1., with a proviso in section 68 that that Act shall not be held to repeal any of the existing statutes relating to savings banks in so far as relates to post office savings banks established or to be established under 24 & 25 Vict. c. 14., nor to repeal any of the powers and authorities vested by those Acts in the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt in regard to the control, management, investment, conversion, and regulation of the funds remitted by the trustees of savings banks or by the trustees of friendly societies to the said commissioners.]