Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING ACT 2006 - SECT 17

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, a bearer negotiable instrument is:

  (a)   a bill of exchange; or

  (b)   a cheque; or

  (c)   a promissory note; or

  (d)   a bearer bond; or

  (e)   a traveller's cheque; or

  (f)   a money order, postal order or similar order; or

  (g)   a negotiable instrument not covered by any of the above paragraphs.

Incomplete documents

  (2)   For the purposes of determining whether a document is covered by paragraph   (1)(f) or (g), it is immaterial that the document is incomplete because the document does not specify:

  (a)   an amount to be paid; or

  (b)   a payee.