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ACTS

OF THE

PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE

FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJESTY

KING GEORGE V.

BEING THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE THIRTIETH PARLIAMENT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

OTTAWA

PRINTED BY JOSEPH DELABROQUERIE TACHÉ

LAW PRINTER (FOR CANADA) TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

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CHAP. II.

An Act to authorize His Majesty by Proclamation to suspend temporarily the payment of Bills of Exchange and payments in pursuance of other obligations.

[3rd August, 1914.]

BE
it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows:-

postpone pay

clamation.

1.-(1) His Majesty may by Proclamation authorize Power to the postponement of the payment of any bill of exchange, ments by or of any negotiable instrument, or any other payment in Royal Propursuance of any contract, to such extent, for such time, and subject to such conditions or other provisions as may be specified in the Proclamation.

(2) No additional stamp duty shall be payable in respect of any instrument as a consequence of any postponement of payment in pursuance of a proclamation under this Act unless the proclamation otherwise directs.

(3) Any such proclamation may be varied, extended, or revoked by any subsequent proclamation, and separate proclamations may be made dealing with separate subjects.

(4) The proclamation dated the third day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, relating to the postponement of payment of certain bills of exchange is hereby confirmed and shall be deemed to have been made under this Act.

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