The Deregulation (Bills of Exchange) Order 1996

Unindorsed cheques as evidence of payment

5.  In section 3 of the Cheques Act 1957(1) (unindorsed cheques as evidence of payment) the existing provision shall become subsection (1) and after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) above, a copy of a cheque to which that subsection applies is evidence of the cheque if—

(a)the copy is made by the banker in whose possession the cheque is after presentment and,

(b)it is certified by him to be a true copy of the original..

(1)

5 & 6 Eliz. 2 c.36.