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Section 65A defines 'notified place'.

"(4) The request must be made at a place that is a notified place in relation to the cheque for the purposes of this subsection.

Note: Section 65A defines 'notified place'.

  "(5) The request must:

  (a) identify the cheque with reasonable certainty; and

     (b) be in a form that is intelligible to, or readily decipherable by, the drawee bank.

"(6) Without limiting the generality of subsection (5), the request is taken, for the purposes of that subsection, to identify the cheque with reasonable certainty if:

  (a) the sum ordered to be paid by the cheque; and

  (b) the cheque number; and

  (c) the account against which the cheque is drawn; and

  (d) the proper place in relation to the cheque;

are specified in the request or are readily ascertainable by the drawee bank from the request.

"(7) If the drawee bank makes a request, the drawee bank must exhibit the cheque or copy to itself at the place specified in the request.

"(8) If a cheque is presented for payment otherwise than by exhibiting it to the drawee bank, nothing in this section is taken to relieve the drawee bank from any liability to which the drawee bank would have been subject in relation to the cheque if it had been presented by being exhibited to the drawee bank.".

External presentment of cheques by banks—designated places and designated exhibition places

  17. Section 65 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by inserting before subsection (1) the following subsection:

   "(1A) The object of this section is to identify the following for the purposes of the rules about external presentment of cheques by banks:

    (a) designated places;

    (b) designated exhibition places;

    (c) designated times;

    (d) designated means of communication.";

   (b) by omitting from paragraph (2)(a) "one or more" and substituting "either or both";

(c) by omitting subparagraph (2)(a)(ii);

(d) by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsections:

     "(2A) If the notice specifies:

      (a) the cheques in relation to which the place is to be a designated place for the purposes of subsection 62(1); and

      (b) 'exhibition' as the means, or one of a number of means, by which communications may be made to the bank at that place;

   the place is a designated exhibition place in relation to the cheques for the purposes of that subsection.

     "(2B) If the notice specifies:

      (a) the cheques in relation to which the place is to be a designated place for the purposes of subsection 62(9); and

      (b) 'exhibition' as the means, or one of a number of means, by which communications may be made to the bank at that place;

   the place is a designated exhibition place in relation to