Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BILLS OF EXCHANGE ACT 1909 - SECT 82

             (1)  Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of:

                     (a)  the word "bank" or the words "and company" or any abbreviation thereof respectively, between two parallel transverse lines, either with or without the words "not negotiable"; or

                     (b)  two parallel transverse lines simply, either with or without the words "not negotiable";

that addition constitutes a crossing, and the cheque is crossed generally.

             (2)  Where a cheque bears across its face an addition of the name of a banker, either with or without the words "not negotiable", that addition constitutes a crossing, and the cheque is crossed specially and to that banker.