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Banking and finance in United Kingdom

Financial services, banking, payments, credit, securities, and regulated finance. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

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  • United Kingdom

    Companies Act 1948

    17 provisions

    This provision sets out how companies are formed, what the memorandum and articles must contain, how they may be altered, and several filing and prospectus requirements.

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  • United Kingdom

    Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Act 2024

    1 provisions

    This Act amends building society funding rules, lets the Treasury specify certain items by regulations, allows electronic participation in some building society meetings, and starts two months after passage.

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  • United Kingdom

    Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008

    2 provisions

    The Treasury is given special powers to order transfers or related changes for authorised UK deposit-takers, but some uses must be tied to stated purposes and compensation rules, and the power to make certain orders ends after one year.

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  • United Kingdom

    Trustee Investments Act 1961

    2 provisions

    Trustees may invest trust property in the Act’s authorised investments, but wider-range investments are only allowed after the fund is split as required and trustees have obtained proper advice.

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  • United Kingdom

    Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1945

    1 provisions

    The Secretary of State may arrange for a die to be made for certain Northern Ireland documents, and an impression made with it gives the document the same validity as if it had been authenticated under the Great Seal of Northern Ireland.

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  • United Kingdom

    Finance Act 1951

    1 provisions

    Transfers of stock of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development are exempt from stamp duties, and some provisions are limited, repealed, or given retrospective effect.

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  • United Kingdom

    Enterprise Act 2016

    4 provisions

    This provision sets up the Small Business Commissioner, gives the Commissioner complaint-handling and advice functions, and gives the Secretary of State regulation, review, and abolition powers.

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  • United Kingdom

    Financial Services Act 2010

    2 provisions

    This segment gives the Authority and Treasury powers to make rules and regulations on financial reporting, short selling, disclosures, penalties, and consumer redress, and it also creates an offence for providing credit card cheques outside the rules.

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  • United Kingdom

    Immigration Act 2016

    9 provisions

    This provision creates offences for illegal working and certain immigration-related housing conduct, gives the Secretary of State regulation-making powers, and sets penalties and enforcement powers.

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  • United Kingdom

    Finance Act 1996

    16 provisions

    This part of the Finance Act 1996 changes several excise and VAT rules, including duty rates, rebates, vehicle exemptions, and notification duties, and it creates penalties for certain kerosene and marked-oil misuse.

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  • United Kingdom

    Consumer Credit Act 1974

    9 provisions

    This provision defines consumer credit and related agreement types, and sets disclosure, withdrawal, cancellation, and execution rules for regulated consumer credit agreements.

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  • United Kingdom

    London Passenger Transport Act 1933

    3 provisions

    This provision transfers specified transport undertakings to the Executive and gives the Executive associated rights, while also keeping certain liabilities, payment duties, and consent limits in place.

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  • United Kingdom

    Agriculture (Amendment) Act 1984

    1 provisions

    This Act amends earlier agriculture and statistics legislation: it widens a co-operative association definition for grant-related loan guarantees, and it replaces part of the information that can be required under the Agricultural Statistics Act 1979.

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  • United Kingdom

    Finance Act 2015

    12 provisions

    This provision makes a wide set of tax changes, including income tax and corporation tax rates, updated allowances and limits, employment benefit exemptions, HMRC approval powers, and anti-avoidance rules.

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  • United Kingdom

    Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000

    2 provisions

    The Treasury can direct that certain resources are treated as appropriation in aid, but the direction must follow any Appropriation Act limit and be made by minute and laid before Parliament.

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