Perhaps I may ask the Minister a question that I should probably have raised under another amendment. The noble Baroness has raised an interesting point. Clause 10(2) states that, "““an account is to be treated as not dormant if at any time … the bank or building society in question was under instructions from the holder … not to communicate with that person””."
If I have an account for which I am fed up with getting statements and say to the bank, ““I don’t want you to talk to me about this again””, does that mean that the bank will then not communicate with me, and that the account will stay dormant until I communicate with the bank possibly 30 years down the line, or be deemed to be dormant on my demise?
Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Newby
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 10 January 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL].
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