NOTE. If the amount due to a depositor at the date of his death (including interest and stock standing to his credit in the Government Stock Register of the Post Office Savings Bank and the dividends thereon) exceeds 100l.,this nomination becomes invalid, and the money is only payable to the executor or administrator of the depositor.

A nomination will not be deemed valid unless the following conditions be strictly complied with:

1. The depositor making the nomination must have attained the age of sixteen years.

2. The nomination must be on a form supplied from the Chief Office, and must be delivered or sent there during the depositor's lifetime. It should be forwarded for registration immediately upon its signature, but will be returned to the depositor.

3. The nominee must not be an officer or servant of the Postmaster-General, unless such officer or servant be the husband, wife, father, mother, child, grandchild, brother, sister, nephew or niece of the depositor. 4. Only one nomination is in force at one time. If it is desired to vary or revoke the nomination, the subjoined form should be filled up and forwarded for registration to the Controller, Savings Bank Department, General Post Office, London, and a new form of nomination should be applied for if neces

sary.

5. The nomination applies only to the account referred to therein. If the account is closed and another opened a fresh nomination must be made.

III.-AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW OF EVIDENCE WITH RESPECT то BANKERS' BOOKS, 42 VICT. C. II (23RD MAY, 1879).

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons,

Short title.

Repeal of

c. 48.

in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

I. This Act may be cited as the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879.

II. The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1876, 39 & 40 Vict. shall be repealed as from the passing of this Act, but such repeal shall not affect anything which has been done or happened before such repeal takes effect.

Mode of proof of entries in bankers' books.

Proof that

book is a banker's book.

Verification

of copy.

Case in which

III. Subject to the provisions of this Act, a copy of any entry in a banker's book shall in all legal proceedings be received as prima facie evidence of such entry, and of the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded.

IV. A copy of an entry in a banker's book shall not be received in evidence under this Act unless it be first proved that the book was at the time of the making of the entry one of the ordinary books of the bank, and that the entry was made in the usual and ordinary course of business, and that the book is in the custody or control of the bank.

Such proof may be given by a partner or officer of the bank, and may be given orally or by an affidavit sworn before any commissioner or person authorized to take affidavits.

V. A copy of an entry in a banker's book shall not be received in evidence under this Act unless it be further proved that the copy has been examined with the original entry and is correct.

Such proof shall be given by some person who has examined the copy with the original entry, and may be given either orally or by an affidavit sworn before any commissioner or person authorized to take affidavits.

VI. A banker or officer of a bank shall not, in banker, &c., any legal proceeding to which the bank is not a party, be compellable to produce any banker's

not com

produce

book, &c.

book the contents of which can be proved under pellable to this Act, or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded, unless by order of a judge made for special cause.

pur

judge may

VII. On the application of any party to a legal Court or proceeding a court or judge may order that such order inparty be at liberty to inspect and take copies of spection, &c. any entries in a banker's book for any of the poses of such proceedings. An order under this section may be made either with or without summoning the bank or any other party, and shall be served on the bank three clear days before the same is to be obeyed, unless the court or judge otherwise directs.

VIII. The costs of any application to a court costs. or judge under or for the purposes of this Act, and the costs of anything done or to be done under an order of a court or judge made under or for the purposes of this Act shall be in the discretion of the court or judge, who may order the same or any part thereof to be paid to any party by the bank, where the same have been occasioned by any default or delay on the part of the bank. Any such order against a bank may be enforced as if the bank was a party to the proceeding.

tion of

and "bank

IX. In this Act the expressions "bank" and Interpreta“banker” mean any person, persons, partnership, "bank," or company carrying on the business of bankers and "banker," having duly made a return to the Commissioners ers' books." of Inland Revenue, and also any savings bank certified, under the Acts relating to savings banks, and also any post office savings bank.

The fact of any such bank having duly made a return to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue may be proved in any legal proceeding by production of a copy of its return verified by the

Interpretation of

"legal proceeding,"

"court, "" "judge."

Computation of time.

affidavit of a partner or officer of the bank, or by the production of a copy of a newspaper purporting to contain a copy of such return published by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue; the fact that any such savings bank is certified under the Acts relating to savings banks may be proved by an office or examined copy of its certificate; the fact that any such bank is a post office savings bank may be proved by a certificate purporting to be under the hand of Her Majesty's Postmaster-General or one of the secretaries of the Post Office.

Expressions in this Act relating to "bankers' books" include ledgers, day books, cash books, account books, and all other books used in the ordinary business of the bank.

X. In this Act

The expression "legal proceeding'

means

any civil or criminal proceeding or inquiry in which evidence is or may be given, and includes an arbitration;

The expression" the court" means the court, judge, arbitrator, persons, or person before whom a legal proceeding is held or taken ; The expression "a judge " means with respect to England a judge of the High Court of Justice, and with respect to Scotland a lord ordinary of the Outer House of the Court of Session, and with respect to Ireland a judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland;

The judge of a county court may with respect to any action in such court exercise the powers of a judge under this Act.

XI. Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and any bank holiday shall be excluded from the computation of time under this Act.

THE SAVINGS BANKS (INVESTMENT)
REGULATIONS, 1880.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SAVINGS BANKS ACT 1880, WITH RESPECT TO INVESTMENTS IN

GOVERNMENT STOCK BY

DEPOSITORS IN

SAVINGS BANKS, MADE BY THE COMMIS-
SIONERS OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY,

WITH THE CONSENT OF THE NATIONAL DEBT
COMMISSIONERS, SO FAR AS ANY REGULA-
TIONS RELATE ΤΟ THOSE COMMISSIONERS,

AND WITH THE CONSENT OF THE POSTMASTER

GENERAL, SO FAR AS ANY REGULATIONS

RELATE TO POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS.

Preliminary.

I. These regulations may be cited for all pur- Short title. poses as the Savings Banks (Investment) Regulations, 1880.

II. These regulations come into operation on Commencethe twenty-second day of November, 1880.

III. In these regulations

The masculine gender includes the feminine,

ment of regulations.

tion.

and the singular number includes the plural; The expression "Government stock" means InterpretaConsolidated Three per Cent. Bank Annuities, Reduced Three per Cent. Bank Annuities, and New Three per Cent. Bank Annuities: