Bank Notes (Scotland) Act 1845
1845 c.38
An Act to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes in Scotland.
Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1891 (c. 67)
F131 Commissioners to certify existing banks of issue and limitation of issue.
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F173 Duplicate of certificate to be published in the Gazette. Gazette to be evidence. C3
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F174 In case banks become united, commissioners to certify the amount of bank notes which each bank was authorized to issue.
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F175 Issue of notes for fractional parts of a pound prohibited.
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F176 Limitation of bank notes in circulation.
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F177 Issuing banks to render accounts weekly. C4
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F178 What shall be deemed to be bank notes in circulation
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F179 Commissioners of stamps and taxes to make a monthly return. C5
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F1710 Mode of ascertaining the average amount of bank notes of each banker in circulation and gold coin, during the first four weeks after 31st December 1845. C6
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F1711 In taking the account of coin held by bankers, silver coin not to exceed the proportion of one fourth of gold. C7
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F1712F2Commissioners of inland revenue empowered to cause the books of bankers containing accounts of their bank notes in circulation, and of gold coin, to be inspected. C8C9 Penalty for refusing to allow such inspection
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F1414 Penalty on banks issuing in excess.
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16 Notes for less than 20s. not negotiable in Scotland.
All promissory or other notes, bills of exchange, or drafts, or undertakings in writing, being negotiable or transferable, for the payment of any sum or sums of money, or any orders, notes, or undertakings in writing, being negotiable or transferable, for the delivery of any goods, specifying their value in money less than the sum of F5one pound in the whole, heretofore made or issued, or which shall hereafter be made or issued in Scotland, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be absolutely void and of no effect, any law, statute, usage, or custom to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and if any person or persons shall by any art, device, or means whatsoever, publish or utter in Scotland any such notes, bills, drafts, or engagements as aforesaid for a less sum than F5one pound , or on which less than the sum of F5one pound shall be due, and which shall be in anywise negotiable or transferable, or shall negotiate or transfer the same in Scotland, every such person shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding twenty pounds nor less than five pounds, at the discretion of the justice of the peace who shall hear and determine such offence.
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18 Penalty for persons, other than bankers hereby authorized, issuing notes payable on demand for less than 5l.
If any body politic or corporate or any person or persons shall make, sign, issue, or re-issue in Scotland any promissory note payable on demand to the bearer thereof for any sum of money less than the sum of five pounds, F15 except banknotes issued in reliance on section 213 of the Banking Act 2009 , then and in either of such cases every such body politic or corporate or person or persons so making, signing, issuing, or re-issuing any such promissory note as aforesaid, except as aforesaid, shall for every such note so made, signed, issued, or re-issued forfeit the sum of twenty pounds.
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F1620 Not to prohibit checks on bankers.
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21 Mode of recovering penalties.
All pecuniary penalties under this Act may be sued or prosecuted for and recovered . . . F8, in respect of any penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, by information or complaint before one or more justice or justices of the peace in Scotland, in such and the same manner as any other penalties imposed by any of the laws now in force relating to the duties under the management of the F9commissioners of inland revenue ; . . . F8
22 Interpretation of Act.
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schedules to which this act refers
F18 schedule (A)
Sch. A repealed (23.11.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 214(2)(a), 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/3000, art. 3
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F19Schedule (B)
Sch. B repealed (23.11.2009) by Banking Act 2009 (c. 1), ss. 214(2)(a), 263(1) (with s. 247); S.I. 2009/3000, art. 3
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F12F12SCHEDULE (C), (D)
Schs. (C.), (D.) repealed by Promissory Notes Act 1863 (c. 105), s. 1
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Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14) Act amended by Stamp Act 1854 (c. 83), s. 11 and Coinage Act 1971 (c. 24), s. 12(2), Sch. 2