Bills of Exchange Act 1904 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

EDWA Rill SEPTUM REGIS,

XXIX.

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No, 54 of 1904.

AN ACT to amend the Bills of Exchange

Act of 1884.

[Assented to 24th December, 1904 ]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

1.     This Act may be cited as the Bills of Exchange Act, 1904, Short title.

and shall be read and construed as one with the Bills of Exchange

Act of 1884, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

2.      For the purposes of section sixty-one of the principal A ct, 13111 includes draft

the word " bill " shall be deemed to mean and include, and to have or order.

always meant and included, a draft or order, whether inland or

foreign, as well as a bill of exchange.

3. A banker shall not be deemed to be or to have been Protection to col- lecting banker

disentitled to the benefit of the provisions of section eighty-three of

where crossed

the principal Act by reason only of the fact that, before receiving

cheque credited to

customer before

payment for a customer of a cheque crossed either generally or

collection.

specially to such banker, he has credited the account of the customer with the amount of such cheque, whether in the books of account of the banker or in the pass book of the customer.

By Authority Wm, ALFRED WArsox, Government Printer, Perth.