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Bookpossum, Looking at that link I'm thinking it might be the same as in Australia where a married woman couldn't open a bank account without her husband's permission. (This is given in the detail but not the heading in that article.) If you were not married I don't think the same rules applies - although I imagine a father's consent would have been required up to a certain age. Also, I think in practice there tended to be considerable variation in how these rules were enforced. The difficulty being that if you got stuck with a ***** of a bank manager you had no come back.
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