{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1979/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1979/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/37",
  "legislation_title": "Banking Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1979",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Banking Act 1979.\n(2) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Any reference in any provision of this Act to “the appointed day” shall be construed as a reference to the day appointed for the purposes of that provision; and any reference in this Act to the day appointed for the purposes of any provision of this Act—\n(a) shall be construed as a reference to the day appointed under this section for the coming into operation of that provison; and\n(b) where different days are appointed for different purposes of that provision, shall be construed, unless an order under this section otherwise provides, as a reference to the first day so appointed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 52(3) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 17 Group 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 52(3) partly exercised by S.I. 1979/938, 1982/188, 1985/797 (the power has been fully exercised as regards all the unrepealed provisions of the Act except for Sch. 6 para. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/37/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:28:03.285681+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}