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Cheques (Scotland) Bill

This is the text of the Cheques (Scotland) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 13th January 1999.

 
EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory Notes to the Bill, provided by the Treasury with the consent of Mr John Swinney, the Member in charge of the Bill, are published separately as Bill 22- EN.
 
  
Cheques (Scotland) Bill
 
 
 
 
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
Clause 
1.Abolition of funds attatched rule for cheques.
2.Supplementary.
3.Short title, commencement and extent.
 

 

 
 
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Amend the law of Scotland in relation to the effect of presentation of cheques for payment.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
 

Abolition of funds attatched rule for cheques.     1. - (1) The funds attached rule, so far as relating to cheques, is abolished.
 
      (2) The funds attached rule is the rule of law by virtue of which a bill of exchange, when presented to the drawee for payment, operates as an assignation of the sum for which it is drawn (or, if the drawee holds insufficient funds, of those funds) in favour of the holder of the bill.
 
      (3) In section 53 (funds in hands of drawee) of the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 ("the 1882 Act"), after subsection (2) there is inserted-
 
 
    "(3) Subsection (2) above does not apply in relation to cheques."
 
Supplementary.     2. - (1) This Act has effect only in relation to cheques presented for payment after it comes into force.
 
      (2) Expressions used in this Act and in the 1882 Act have the same meanings as they have in that Act.
 
      (3) The following are repealed-
 
 
    (a) in section 53(2) of the 1882 Act, the words "Subject to section 75A of this Act,",
 
    (b) section 75A of the 1882 Act,
 
    (c) section 11 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985.
Short title, commencement and extent.     3. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Cheques (Scotland) Act 1999.
 
      (2) This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed.
 
      (3) This Act extends only to Scotland.
 
 

 
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