{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/premium-savings-bonds-regulations-1972/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/premium-savings-bonds-regulations-1972/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/765",
  "legislation_title": "The Premium Savings Bonds Regulations 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/premium-savings-bonds-regulations-1972",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Maximum holding of bonds",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not purchase any bond or hold any bond purchased on his behalf if the total number of unit bonds which will be held by him immediately after the purchase will exceed 2,000.\n(2) In calculating for the purpose of this Regulation the total number of unit bonds which a person holds, a multiple bond shall be taken to be such a number of unit bonds as is represented by the multiple bond.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1976/1543",
      "affecting_title": "The Premium Savings Bonds (Amendment) Regulations 1976"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1980/452",
      "affecting_title": "The Premium Savings Bonds (Amendment) Regulations 1980"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/782",
      "affecting_title": "The Premium Savings Bonds (Amendment) Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/1182",
      "affecting_title": "The Premium Savings Bonds (Maximum Holdings) (Amendment) Regulations 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1085",
      "affecting_title": "The Premium Savings Bonds (Amendment)Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/765/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:31:13.169679+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."
}