BILLS OF EXCHANGE.

No. 10 of 1958.

An Act to amend section ninety-eight of the Bills of Exchange Act 1909–1936.

[Assented to 12th May 1958.]

[Date of commencement, 9th June, 1958.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Bills of Exchange Act 1958.

(2.) The Bills of Exchange Act 1909–1936, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Bills of Exchange Act 1909–1958.

Computation of time.

2. Section ninety-eight of the Bills of Exchange Act 1909–1936 is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words “Where in pursuance of the law of the Commonwealth or of a State” and inserting in their stead the words “Where, by or in pursuance of a law of the Commonwealth (including a law of a Territory of the Commonwealth) or a law of a State,”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (5.) the words “Where, in pursuance of the law of the Commonwealth or of a State” and inserting in their stead the words “Where, by or in pursuance of a law of the Commonwealth (including a law of a Territory of the Commonwealth) or a law of a State”.