JERSEY LAW 12/1955

BANK NOTES (JERSEY) LAW, 1955.

A LAW to provide that notes of the Bank of England shall be legal tender in the Island, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

1st day of DECEMBER, 1955.

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(Registered on the 24th day of December, 1955).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 13th day of September, 1955.

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law:  -

ARTICLE 1

All notes of the Bank of England payable to bearer on demand shall be legal tender in the Island so long as, and only so long as, they are legal tender in England and Wales.

ARTICLE 2

The “Loi appliquant à cette Ile les prescriptions de certains Actes de Parlement rendant monnaie courante (‘legal tender’) des billets émis en vertu des dits Actes de Parlement”, confirmed by Order of His Majesty in Council of the 3rd day of February, 1915,1 is hereby repealed.

ARTICLE 3

This Law may be cited as the Bank Notes (Jersey) Law, 1955.



1 Tome V (1935 edition), page 398.



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