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[4 & 5 GEO. 5.] Bills of Exchange Act, 1914.

[CH. 82,]

SUPPLIED

FOR THE

PUBLIC

SERVICE

CHAPTER 82.

An Act to make provision in connection with the present A.D. 1914.

war with respect to Bills of Exchange payable outside the British Islands.

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[18th September 1914.]

E it 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, as follows:

payment due

1. Without prejudice to the operation of subsection (1) of Delay in section forty-six of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, delay in presentment the presentment for payment of a bill of exchange, where the of a bill for proper place for payment is outside the British Islands, is to war. excused if the delay is, or has been, due either directly or 45 & 46 Vict. indirectly to circumstances arising out of the present war, or to the impracticability, owing to similar circumstances, of trans- mitting the bill to the place of payment with reasonable safety.

c. 61.

2. Where, in any action or proceeding upon a bill of Provision a exchange payable outside the British Islands, it is shown to the to bills of court that the bill has been lost and that the loss can reasonably lost owing to

exchange be presumed to be due to circumstances attributable directly or war. indirectly to the present war, the court may allow proof of the bill to be given by means of a copy thereof certified by a notary public, or by means of such other evidence as the court think reasonable under the circumstances: Provided that such indem- nity be given against the claims of other persons as the court may require.

3. His Majesty may, by Order in Council, at any time Duration determine the operation of this Act, or provide that this Act shall have effect subject to such limitations as may be contained in the Order; but, subject to the operation of any such Order

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