Deposit Takers Act 2023

Crisis management and resolution - Conduct of resolution - Bank may suspend payment of money owing

331: Bank may not suspend or cancel obligation incurred after deposit taker enters resolution

You could also call this:

"Banks can't stop paying debts made after they get into trouble"

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You have a deposit with a bank that is in trouble. The bank cannot stop you from getting your money back if you deposited it after the bank's troubles started. The bank also cannot stop paying its debts or cancel its promises to lend money if these promises were made after its troubles started.

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Part 7Crisis management and resolution
Conduct of resolution: Bank may suspend payment of money owing

331Bank may not suspend or cancel obligation incurred after deposit taker enters resolution

  1. Section 330 does not authorise the Bank to suspend the repayment of a deposit, or the payment of a debt, or the discharge of an obligation, or to cancel an obligation to provide funding, if the obligation to repay the deposit, or to pay the debt, or the obligation, is incurred by the licensed deposit taker after it enters resolution.

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