{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-290",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3649",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001",
  "path": "article/290",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "290",
  "heading": "Attachment of debts",
  "text": "(1) Section 40 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 (attachment of debts) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), for the words from “the following” to the end substitute “any deposit account, and any withdrawable share account, with a deposit-taker”.\n(3) In subsection (4)(b) for “deposit-taking institution”, in both places, substitute “deposit-taker”.\n(4) For subsection (6) substitute—\n“(6) “Deposit-taker” means a person who may, in the course of his business, lawfully accept deposits in the United Kingdom.”.\n(5) After subsection (6) insert—\n“(7) Subsection (6) must be read with—\n(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any relevant order under that section; and\n(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 290 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 40(6) was amended by the Banking Act 1987 (c. 22) Schedule 6, paragraph 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3649/article/290",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:23:30.014012+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."
}