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Cheques Act 1986
91Protection of drawee institution paying improperly raised cheque
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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.