{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/1",
  "legislation_title": "Banking Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Directors and senior managers",
  "text": "(1) A share transfer instrument may enable the Bank of England—\n(a) to remove a director or senior manager of a specified bank;\n(b) to vary the service contract of a director or senior manager of a specified bank;\n(c) to terminate the service contract of a director or senior manager of a specified bank;\n(d) to appoint a director or senior manager of a specified bank.\n(1A) Subsection (1) also applies to a director or senior manager of any undertaking which is a banking group company in respect of a specified bank.\n(2) A share transfer order may enable the Treasury—\n(a) to remove a director or senior manager of a specified bank;\n(b) to vary the service contract of a director or senior manager of a specified bank;\n(c) to terminate the service contract of a director or senior manager of a specified bank;\n(d) to appoint a director or senior manager of a specified bank.\n(3) Appointments under subsection (1)(d) are to be on terms and conditions agreed with the Bank of England.\n(4) Appointments under subsection (2)(d) are to be on terms and conditions agreed with the Treasury.\n(5) In this section “senior manager” means a person who—\n(a) exercises executive functions within a specified bank or banking group company, and\n(b) is responsible, and directly accountable to the directors, for the day to day management of that bank or banking group company.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 20(1) inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 27(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 20(1A) inserted (1.8.2014) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 100(3), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2014/1847, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 20(1A) inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 27(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 20(2) inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 27(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 20(5) inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 27(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 20 heading inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 27(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 17.2.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 21.2.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/296, arts. 2, 3, Sch. para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/1/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:28.246347+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."
  }
}