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Promissory Notes Act 1863

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 5 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1863 c. 105
Anno Regni VICTORI, Britanniarum Regin,Vicesimo Sexto & Vicesimo Septimo. An Act to remove certain Restrictions on the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange under a limited Sum.

(26 & 27 Vict.) C A P. CV.

[28th July 1863]

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:

S-1 G. 3. c. 30., &c., restraining Negotiation in England of Notes and Bills for a limited Sum, and Sect. 17. and Schedules \(C.) and \(D.) of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 38., restraining Negotiation in Scotland of like Notes, &c., repealed.

1 G. 3. c. 30., &c., restraining Negotiation in England of Notes and Bills for a limited Sum, and Sect. 17. and Schedules \(C.) and \(D.) of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 38., restraining Negotiation in Scotland of like Notes, &c., repealed.

1. From and after the passing of this Act, the Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of KingGeorge the Third, Chapter Thirty, and so much and such Part and Parts of any other Act or Acts as continue or revive the said Act, or as prohibit or restrain, or impose any Penalty for or on account of the publishing, uttering, or negotiating in England of any Promissory or other Note, not being a Note payable to Bearer on Demand, Bill of Exchange, Draft, or Undertaking in Writing, being negotiable or transferable, for the Payment of Twenty Shillings, or above that Sum and less than Five Pounds, or on which Twenty Shillings, or above that Sum and less than Five Pounds, shall remain undischarged, made, drawn, or endorsed in any other Manner than as directed by the said Act of the Seventeenth Year aforesaid, and also the Seventeenth Section and Schedules (C.) and (D.) of an Act passed in the Eighth and Ninth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Thirty-eight, requiring or directing that all such Notes, Bills, Drafts, or...

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