{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1987-repealed/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1987-repealed/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/22",
  "legislation_title": "Banking Act 1987 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-1987-repealed",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Maximum and minimum contributions.",
  "text": "(1) The amount of the inital contribution levied from a contributory institution shall be not less than £10,000.\n(2) The amount of the initial contribution or any further contribution levied from a contributory institution shall not exceed £300,000.\n(3) No contributory institution shall be required to pay a further or special contribution if, or to the extent that, the amount of that contribution, together with previous initial, further and special contributions made by the institution, after allowing for any repayments made to it under section 55(2) above or section 63 below, amounts to more than 0.3 per cent. of the institution’s deposit base as ascertained for the purpose of the contribution in question.\n(4) Nothing in subsection (3) above—\n(a) shall entitle an institution to repayment of any contribution previously made; or\n(b) shall prevent the Board from proceeding to levy contributions from other contributory institutions in whose case the limit in that subsection has not been reached.\n(5) The Treasury may from time to time after consultation with the Board by order—\n(a) amend subsection (1) or (2) above so as to substitute for the sum for the time being specified in that subsection such other sum as may be specified in the order; or\n(b) amend subsection (3) above so as to substitute for the percentage for the time being specified in that subsection such other percentage as may be specified in the order.\n(6) No order shall be made under subsection (5) above unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 56: power to apply conferred (9.6.1997) by 1997 c. 32, s. 32(2); S.I. 1997/1427, art. 2(g)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 56: power to repeal conferred (9.6.1997) by 1997 c. 32, s. 32(5)(a); S.I. 1997/1427, art. 2(g)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/22/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:41.355387+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."
}