{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009/section-79A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009/section-79A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/1",
  "legislation_title": "Banking Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/banking-act-2009",
  "path": "section/79A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79A",
  "heading": "Private sector purchaser: report",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Bank of England sells all or part of a bank's business to a commercial purchaser.\n(2) The Bank must report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer about the exercise of the power to make share transfer instruments and property transfer instruments under section 11(2).\n(3) The report must comply with any requirements as to content specified by the Treasury.\n(4) The report must be made as soon as is reasonably practicable after the end of one year beginning with the date of the first transfer instrument made under section 11(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 79A inserted (1.1.2015) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 99(1), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2014/3323, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/1/section/79A",
    "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."
  }
}