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Part of LexisNexis' popular and successful Handbook series, Butterworths Banking Law Handbook contains all of the principal primary and secondary legislation relating to banking law together with important European legislation and other supplementary materials.

This, the seventh, edition of this Handbook includes all of the relevant provisions of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, together with the supporting statutory instruments made under it.

This Handbook also contains the statutes and statutory instruments relating to banking and the Bank of England, as well as covering such diverse areas as contract and agency, mortgages and charges, international organisations and sovereign immunity, and money laundering and terrorist financing. All legislation is reproduced as amended and fully updated.

This edition includes the following significant recent legislation:

* Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008;
* All statutory instruments made under the 2008 Act (the Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2008, the Northern Rock plc Compensation Scheme Order 2008, the Bradford & Bingley plc Transfer of Securities and Property etc Order 2008, the Heritable Bank plc Transfer of Certain Rights and Liabilities Order 2008, the Transfer of Rights and Liabilities to ING Order 2008, the Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Limited Transfer of Certain Rights and Liabilities Order 2008);
* Relevant provisions of the Companies Act 2006;
* Money Laundering Regulations 2007;
* Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2007;
* Electronic Commerce Directive (Terrorism Act 2006) Regulations 2007;
* Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2007;
* Control of Cash (Penalties) Regulations 2007;
* Bank Accounts Directive (Miscellaneous Banks) Regulations 2008;
* Cash Ratio Deposits (Value Bands and Ratios) Order 2008;
* Landsbanki Freezing Order 2008 (made under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001);
* Regulated Covered Bonds Regulations 2008;
* The recast Banking Consolidation Directive and Capital Adequacy Directive.

Also included in this edition is the JMLSG's Guidance on the prevention of money laundering, together with the 2008 Banking Code and Business Banking Code and the 2007 BBA Code of Conduct for the Advertising of Interest Bearing Accounts.

This wide-ranging collection of source material is completed by a comprehensive index and is an essential reference work for those working in the banking sector.

Statutes;
Statutory Instruments;
EC Legislation

Consultant editors: William Blair QC, and Felicity Maher, Barrister, 3 Verulam Buildings.