BCOBS 7.4 Replacing a debit card
Time taken to replace a stolen, lost or stopped debit card
- (1)
1This rule applies to information about the time it takes a firm to replace a debit card which has been lost, stolen or stopped.
- (2)
The firm must publish the following information about debit cards replaced in the relevant current account measurement period (see BCOBS 7.7.1R):
- (3)
The firm must publish the information:
- (a)
in the format specified in Table 8 of BCOBS 7 Annex 1R; and
- (b)
on the same webpage as, and immediately below, the information published under BCOBS 7.3.5R.
- (a)
- (4)
For the purposes of this rule:
- (a)
the time taken is to be counted from the earlier of the day on which:
- (b)
a debit card is to be treated as replaced only when both the card and (where relevant) personal identification number have been issued to the banking customer.
- (a)
- (1)
1The time taken to issue a replacement debit card need not include activation of the card. Firms are not required to measure the time taken to replace a card on expiry of the card.
- (2)
Firms are reminded that regulation 71(6) of the Payment Services Regulations requires a payment service provider to allow the use of the payment instrument or replace it with a new payment instrument “as soon as practicable” after the reasons for stopping its use cease to exist.