Fixed Rate Branch Bond Terms and Conditions

These Product Terms and Conditions are specific to your savings product. They form part of your savings account’s terms and conditions, so you need to read these along with the other documents that make up your agreement.

Your Product Terms and Conditions have priority over anything that’s said differently in another part of your agreement.

This product is for people who want to save knowing that the interest rate won't change for a fixed period and who won't need to get hold of their money during that period.

‘Nominated Account’ is an account you’re named on that can accept payments from your Fixed Rate Branch Bond. This account must be:

• a Nationwide current account or savings account
• a current account with another UK provider that accepts Faster Payments.

You need to be aged 16 or over. If you're aged between 7 and 15, you can also hold a Fixed Rate Branch Bond, if you opened it using money you previously held in a Fixed Rate Bond or Fixed Rate Branch Bond with Nationwide.

You can't have more than £5 million in your account. This limit doesn't include any interest calculated on your account balance and added to your account.

Your account can be in sole or joint names, and you can have a maximum of two joint account holders. All account holders must meet these conditions for holding the account.

Your account has a fixed term beginning on the day you open your account. We'll provide you with the term for your Fixed Rate Branch Bond when you open it.

After the fixed term ends, we'll transfer your account to an instant access savings product. The terms and conditions and the interest rate for that product will then apply. We'll tell you personally before we transfer your account.

You can run your account in any of the following ways:

• in branch
• using the Internet Bank or our Banking app.

The interest rate payable on your account is fixed for the term. We'll provide you with the interest rate for your Fixed Rate Branch Bond when you open it.

From the date we open your account, you'll have 14 days to pay money into it. Money in your account will only start to earn interest on the day we receive it, so it's a good idea to pay money in as soon as you can. For example, if you wait until day 14 to pay money into a Fixed Rate Branch Bond with a fixed term of one year, you'll get interest for 351 days (352 days if it includes 29 February).

If the fixed term for your Fixed Rate Branch Bond is one year or less, we'll pay interest into your account at the end of the term.

If the fixed term is for more than one year, we'll pay interest into your account on each anniversary of your account opening and at the end of the term.

If you open your account on 29 February, we'll pay your interest on 28 February.

We'll also pay interest when you close your account.

You have 14 days from the date we open your account to pay money into it. You can do this in any of the following ways:

• in cash
• by cheque
• by electronic transfer.

From day 15, you can't make any more payments in and, if at this point no money has been paid in, your Fixed Rate Branch Bond will be closed.

If you try to pay money into your account from day 15 onwards, the payment will be rejected. Any rejected electronic transfers will be returned to the account the transfer was made from.

If you change your mind after you open your account, you have 14 days from the date you open your account to close it (see Section 14 of Our Savings Terms and Conditions).

If you close your account within those 14 days, we'll return the money you've paid in and pay you any interest you've earned.

If you don't close your account within the 14-day period, you can't normally take any money out of your account or close it before the end of the fixed term. (As no payment services are available on your account after the 14-day period, the right to close your account in Section 15 of Our Savings Terms and Conditions doesn't apply.)

You can take money out during the 14-day period in one of the following ways:

• by electronic transfer to your Nominated Account
• by internal transfer to a current account or savings account you have with Nationwide (as long as it accepts payments)
• by Building Society cheque.

If your Nominated Account is with Nationwide, we'll send your money by internal transfer. And if your Nominated Account is with another UK provider, we'll send it by Faster Payment.

A Building Society cheque will be made payable to you (or to both of you if this account is held in joint names).

There may be limits on the amount of money you can take out of your account, depending on the way you choose to take it out. You can find out more by asking in branch or on nationwide.co.uk

If we can't send your money to your Nominated Account as a single Faster Payment because the amount exceeds the limit, you'll need to go into one of our branches to close your account. Here you'll be able to arrange to transfer your money to your Nominated Account by making a number of Faster Payments.

In Section 12 of Our Savings Terms and Conditions, we say what happens if you don't want to accept a change we make to your terms and conditions. Where we make a change that affects your Fixed Rate Branch Bond's terms and conditions, the approach is slightly different. If the law doesn't require us to give you at least two months' notice and the change doesn't disadvantage you, you can't close your account before the end of the fixed term.