Negotiations of Notes and Bills Act 1802

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1802 c. 1
Year1802
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quadragesimo tertio. An Act for further suspending, until the Expiration of six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, the Operation of two Acts, made in the fifteenth and seventeenth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange, under a limited Sum, within that Part ofGreat Britain called England .

(43 Geo. 3) C A P. I.

[17th December 1802]

'WHEREAS two Acts passed in the fifteenth and seventeenth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, to restrain the Negotiation of Promissory Notes under five Poundsmade and negotiated inEngland , have been, by several subsequent Acts of the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, and thirty-ninth Yearsof the Reign of his present Majesty, suspended until and upon the thirtieth Day ofNovember One thousand eight hundred and two, so far as the same relate to any Notes, Drafts, or Undertakings made payable on Demand to the Bearer thereof: And whereas it is expedient further to suspend the said Actsof the fifteenth and seventeenth Years, so far as the same relate to such Notes which shall be made for Sums of one Poundand one Shilling and of one Pound each;' be it therefore enacted by the King'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, That the said recited Acts of the fifteenth and seventeenth Yearsof the Reign of his present Majesty, so far as the same relate to the making void of Promissory Notes, or other Notes, made payable on Demand to the Bearer thereof for Sums of one Pound and one Shilling and of one Pound each, and also so far as the same...

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