Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00074:section:91
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00074
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 91
Character Range: 90113–90654

91  Protection of drawee institution paying improperly raised cheque
  Where:
 (a) a cheque is fraudulently altered so as to increase the sum ordered to be paid by the cheque;
 (b) the alteration is the only material alteration of the cheque made fraudulently; and
 (c) the drawee institution, in good faith and without negligence, pays the cheque to the holder;
the drawee institution may, without prejudice to any other rights that it may have against the drawer, debit the drawer's account according to the tenor of the cheque as drawn.