UK Government Data Standards Catalogue

Metadata Value
Data Element

UK Bank Account Number

Is Part Of
Financial Identifiers
Identifiers
Has Parts  
Version 2.0 
Status Release 
Previous Versions  
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Date Agreed 1 January 2002

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Name

UK Bank Account Number

Description A reference number that uniquely identifies this bank account within this branch of a UK bank.
Business Format 8 characters
Element Type Data Item
XML Schema
View whole schema document Financial Identifier Types as XML
View definition UKBankAccountNumberType as HTML
Validation
Must be 8 numeric characters right justified with leading zeros added if necessary.
Value
DefaultValue
Owner BACS
Based On BACS
Verification
Comment