Western Australian Consolidated Acts

BILLS OF EXCHANGE (NON-PAYMENT) (1832) (IMP) - SECT 1

1 .         Bills of exchange expressed to be paid in any place other than the residence of the drawee, if not accepted on presentment, may be protested in that place, unless amount paid to the holder

                [T]hat from and after the passing of this Act all bills of exchange wherein the drawer or drawers thereof shall have expressed that such bills of exchange are to be payable in any place other than the place by him or them therein mentioned to be the residence of the drawee or drawees thereof, and which shall not on the presentment for acceptance thereof be accepted, shall or may be, without further presentment to the drawee or drawees, protested for non-payment in the place in which such bills of exchange shall have been by the drawer or drawers expressed to be payable, unless the amount owing upon such bills of exchange have been paid to the holder or holders thereof on the day on which such bills of exchange would have become payable had the same been duly accepted.