§ Order of the Day for the house to be put into Committee read.
§ Moved, That the House do now resolve itself into Committee.—(Lord Danesfort.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly:
§ [The EARL OF ONSLOW in the Chair.]
§ Clause 1:
§ Amendment as to cheques drawn by a bank on itself.
§ 1. Sections seventy-six to eighty-two of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (which relate to crossed cheques), as amended by the Bills of Exchange (Crossed Cheques) Act, 1906, shall apply to a banker's draft as if the draft were a cheque.
§ For the purposes of this section, the expression "banker's draft" means a draft payable on demand drawn by an office of a bank upon itself, or upon some other office of the same bank.
§ LORD DANESFORTIn the absence of my noble friend Lord Atkin, I wish to move the Amendment standing in his name, to leave out all words after "by" ["by an office of a bank"] down to and including "same" and insert "or on behalf of a bank upon itself whether payable at the head office or some other office of the".
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Amendment moved—
Clause 1, page 1, line 13, leave out from ("by") to ("bank") in line 14 and insert ("or on behalf of a bank upon itself whether payable at the head office or some other office of the").—(Lord Danesfort.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 1, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining clause agreed to.