{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1972/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1972/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/65",
  "legislation_title": "National Debt Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-debt-act-1972",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Maintenance of the register.",
  "text": "(1) The register—\n(a) which was established in pursuance of section 1 of the War Loan (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1915 as amended by section 2 of the War Loan Act 1918; and\n(b) with which, by virtue of section 12(2) of the Savings Banks Act 1929, were amalgamated such stock registers as by virtue of the Savings Banks Act 1880 had been established by savings banks authorities; and\n(c) of which the name was changed from the Post Office register to the National Savings Stock Register by section 108(1) of the Post Office Act 1969,\nshall continue in existence by the name of the National Savings Stock Register and is hereafter in this Act referred to as “the register”.\n(2) The register, . . . , shall continue to be kept by the Director of Savings.\n(3) Any description of government stock which is not for the time being included in Part I of Schedule 11 to the Finance Act 1942 may be registered in the register.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Trustee Savings Banks Act 1976 (c. 4), Sch. 6 which repeal came into force on 20.7.1986 by virtue of S.I. 1986/1221, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(3) substituted (20.7.1998) by S.I. 1998/1446, art. 30(1), Sch. 1 para. 1 (for s. 2(3)(4) which has been inserted in part by S.I. 1997/2646, reg. 6(2)(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1915 c. 93."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1918 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1929 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1880 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1969 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/65/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:31.549225+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."
}