{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-bank-regulations-1972/regulation-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-savings-bank-regulations-1972/regulation-53.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/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Evidence of identity, etc",
  "text": "(1) The Director of Saving shall be entitled to require evidence to be given to his satisfaction of the identity of any person, of the title of any person to any deposits, or of the authority of any person to withdraw or transfer any deposits, or to require evidence that anything purporting to be done in pursuance of these Regulations has been duly done, or otherwise with respect to any matters on which the due exercise of his powers or performance of his duties under these Regulations depends, and the Director of Savings may for the purpose of obtaining any such evidence require a statutory declaration to be made by any person.\n(2) The Director of Savings may accept as conclusive proof of the death of a depositor any evidence which establishes to his satisfaction the fact that the depositor has not been heard of for a period of seven years or more, and, for the purposes of this paragraph, the expression “depositor” includes any person beneficially interested at any time, whether absolutely or contingently, in the personal estate of a deceased depositor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/764/regulation/53",
    "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."
}