Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BILLS OF EXCHANGE ACT 1909 - SECT 82

  (1)   Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of:

  (a)   the word "bank" or the words "and company" or any abbreviation thereof respectively, between two parallel transverse lines, either with or without the words "not negotiable"; or

  (b)   two parallel transverse lines simply, either with or without the words "not negotiable";

that addition constitutes a crossing, and the cheque is crossed generally.

  (2)   Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of the name of a banker, either with or without the words "not negotiable", that addition constitutes a crossing, and the cheque is crossed specially and to that banker.