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Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 5: 5: Clause 1, page 1, line 7, leave out ““customer”””” and insert ““owner”””” The noble Lord said: This amendment is the last that I shall be moving for some time. Throughout, the Bill uses the term ““customer”” of the bank. I am troubled because the customer may well be long dead and gone and no longer exist as far as this world is concerned, but the account is the property of one of his heirs. Therefore, I believe that it would improve the drafting if we used the word ““owner”” instead. I shall leave it there but I hope I have made the point. I beg to move