{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-bank-regulations-1972/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-bank-regulations-1972/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/764",
  "legislation_title": "The National Savings Bank Regulations 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-bank-regulations-1972",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Loss of or damage to deposit book",
  "text": "(1) On the application of a depositor, the Director of Savings may, if he thinks fit, issue a new deposit book to replace a lost one.\n(2) If in the opinion of the Director of Savings any deposit book has been tampered with or is in such a condition as to render the issue of a new book desirable, he may, if he thinks fit, require the surrender and cancellation of the book and issue a new book to the depositor.\n(3) Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations, the Director of Savings may pay, any sum in respect of any amount in the National Savings Bank without the production of the deposit book, where he is satisfied that the depositor or other claimant is entitled to receive that sum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2288",
      "affecting_title": "The National Savings Bank (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/764/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:31:14.136555+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."
}