Cheques and Payment Orders Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997No. 276 1

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Cheques and Payment Orders Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, ThE Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Cheques and Payment Orders Act 1986.

Dated 17 September 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN CAMPBELL

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

for the Treasurer

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Cheques and Payment Orders Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[Note:  These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 2A (Non-bank financial institutions)

2.1   Omit the regulation, substitute:

Non-bank financial institutions

 “2A. For paragraph (b) of the definition of ‘non-bank financial institution’ in subsection 3 (1) of the Act, the following registered corporations are prescribed:

• (a)

  Elders Rural Finance Limited;

• (b)

  Primac Elders Limited;

• (c)

  Wesfarmers Dalgety Limited;

• (d)

  Wesfarmers Limited;

• (e)

  Westralian Farmers Co-operative Limited.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 September 1997.

2. Statutory Rules 1987 No. 130 as amended by 1988 No. 37; 1994 Nos. 100 and 406.