Mutual Banks Amendment Act 54 of 1999

The Mutual Banks Amendment Act 54 of 1999 intends:

• to amend the Mutual Banks Act, 1993, so as:
  • to delete a definition and to define or further define certain expressions;
  • to extend the powers of the Registrar of Banks to hold discussions, with a view to achieving effective supervision, with the executive management of mutual banks or of their associates;
  • to substitute for the concepts of provisional and final registration as a mutual bank the single concept of registration as a mutual bank;
  • to delete residual references to terminating mutual building societies;
  • to make other provision with regard to the payment of annual licence fees in respect of mutual bank business;
  • to include employees of associates of mutual banks in the limit placed on the number of employees that may serve as directors of a mutual bank;
  • to prohibit the appointment of officers of associates of mutual banks as auditors of such mutual banks;
  • to provide more specific guidelines regarding matters to be reported to the said Registrar by the auditor of a mutual bank;
  • to include employees of associates of mutual banks in the limit placed on the number of employees that may serve on a mutual bank's audit committee;
  • to make further provision with regard to large exposures of mutual banks;
  • to further regulate the furnishing by mutual banks of returns to the Registrar of Banks;
  • to authorize the making of regulations with regard to the restriction of mutual banks' investments in immovable property and shares and of the granting by mutual banks of loans and advances to certain subsidiaries; and
  • to further regulate the role of mutual banks as agents in the effecting of money-lending transactions; and
• to provide for matters connected therewith.  

Commencement

20 March 2000