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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1979/schedule-6/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/37",
  "legislation_title": "Banking Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1979",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In subsection (1) of section 87 of the Solicitors Act 1974 (interpretation of expressions used in that Act), in the definition of “bank”—\n(a) in paragraph (a) after the word “England” there shall be inserted the words “the Post Office, in the exercise of its powers to provide banking services, or a recognised bank within the meaning of the Banking Act 1979”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b) for the words “a company as to which the Secretary of State is satisfied” there shall be substituted the words “ any othercompany as to which, immediately before the repeal of the Protection of Depositors Act 1963, the Secretary of State was satisfied ”;\nand the expression “bank” in any instrument made under the said Act of 1974 which is in force immediately before the appointed day shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 38, 51(2), Sch. 6 Pt. I paras 1-3, 9(a)(b) and 10(a)(b) is in the form in which it was originally enacted; it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/37/schedule/6/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:15.350921+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."
}