{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankers-books-evidence-act-1879/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankers-books-evidence-act-1879/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/42-43/11",
  "legislation_title": "Bankers’ Books Evidence Act 1879",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bankers-books-evidence-act-1879",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Case in which banker, &c. not compellable to produce book, &c.",
  "text": "A banker or officer of a bank shall not, in any legal proceeding to which the bank is not a party, be compellable to produce any banker’s book the contents of which can be proved under this Act or under the Civil Evidence (Scotland) Act 1988 or Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded, unless by order of a judge made for special cause.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted (S.) by Civil Evidence (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 32, SIF 47), ss. 7(3), 10(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40 s. 5, Sch. 4 para 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/42-43/11/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:47.718696+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}