A set of acts, laws, regulations, and guidelines have been enacted and promulgated time to time since BB’s establishment which helped BB to perform its role as a central bank particularly, to control and regulate country’s monetary and financial system. Among others, important laws and acts include:
- Offshore Banking Act, 2024 & NBR S.R.O. no 100-Ain/Aykor-29/2024
- Finance Company Act, 2023
- Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2021
- Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 (P.O. No. 127 of 1972)
- Bank Company Act, 1991 (amended up to 2023)
- Bank Company Act, 1991
- Bank Company (amendment) Act, 2013
- The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
- The Bankers’ Book Evidence Act, 1891
- Foreign Exchange Regulations (Amendement) Act, 2015
- Foreign Exchange Regulations Act, 1947
- Financial Institutions Act, 1993
- Financial Reporting Act, 2015
- Bank Deposit Insurance Act, 2000
- Money Loan Court Act, 2003
- Micro Credit Regulatory Authority Act, 2006
- Money Laundering Prevention (Amendment) Act, 2015
- Money Laundering Prevention Act,2012 [Bangla] [English]
- Anti Terrorism (Amendment) Act, 2013
- Anti-terrorism Act, 2009
- Payment and Settlement System Act, 2024