UK Government Data Standards Catalogue

Metadata Value
Data Element

UK Bank Branch Sort Code

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

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Name

UK Bank Branch Sort Code

Description A code, allocated by the banking community, used to uniquely identify an individual branch of a bank.
Business Format max 6 Characters
Element Type Data Item
XML Schema
View whole schema document Financial Identifier Types as XML
View definition UKBankBranchSortCodeType as HTML
Validation
Must be 6 numeric characters
Value
DefaultValue
Owner DTG
Based On BACS
Verification
Comment