Trading-stamps Abolition Act 1902 (WA)

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EDWARD' VII. REGIS.

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AN A CT to prevent the use of Trading-stamps.

[Governor's assent reserved.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia-

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. THE short title of this Act is the Trading-stamps Abolition Short title.

Act, 1902.

2. IN this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,— Interpretation.

" Sale " includes the exchange or other disposition of any

property.

" Trader " means any person, firm, or company carrying on

any business who issues trading-stamps to customers.

1° & 20 EDWARD' VII., No. 80.

Trading-stamps Abolition.

"Trading-stamp" includes any stamp, coupon, cover, package, 'document, means, or device issued by any trading-stamp company, or by any trader, which entitles the holder thereof to demand and receive from any trading-stain p company any money or goods.

" Trading-stamp company " means and includes any person, firm, or company who supplies any trading stamps to any trader, and undertakes to redeem the same by giving or delivering to the holder thereof any money or goods.

Trading-stamps 3. (1.) NO person shall, after the commencement of this Act,

abolished. issue any trading-stamps to any person.

(2.) No person shall give or deliver any money or goods on

presentation of any trading-stamp issued after the commencement of

this Act.

(3.) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of

this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten pounds.

(4.) For the purposes of this section, the person on whose

behalf any sale is made by an agent, assistant, or apprentice shall be deemed to be the person who effected the sale ; and such agent, assistant, or apprentice shall be liable to the same penalty as the person on whose behalf the sale was made.

Trading-stamps 4. WITH respei t to any trading stamps issued before the com-

issued prior to Act. mencement of this Act, the following provision shall apply :—If such trading stamps have been issued by the trader to any person, the trading-stamp company shall be liable to give or deliver to the holder thereof cash to the value of fourteen shillings in the pound for every full book of stamps, or relatively to the cash value of stamps in such book, or goods to an equal value, at the option of the trading- stamp company. If the trading-stamp company fails or refuses to observe and perform the liability imposed on such trading-stamp company by this section, the holder may recover from such company, in any Court of competent jurisdiction, payment of the cash value of the stamps held and Tresented by such holder.

By Authority: ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth.