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Branch Closure Protocols

5 September 2022

This version of the Protocol has been superseded, to access the new Branch Closure Support Protocol please click here

The Transaction Services and Branch Closure Protocol (the Protocol) provides a guideline of the minimum standards of service delivery in the event of closing branches in the applicable classes. This Protocol applies to the closure of branches in the Inner regional, Outer regional, Remote, Very remote and Migratory classes only if there is not another branch of the same brand within 20 kilometres by road.

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