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CHEQUES ACT 1986 - SECT 86

Effect of discharge of indorser

  (1)   Subject to subsection   ( 2), where an indorser is discharged under subsection   83(1) or (2), all rights on the cheque against the indorser are extinguished.

  (2)   Where:

  (a)   an indorser is discharged:

  (i)   by virtue of paragraph   83(1)(a) by the renunciation of the holder's rights against the indorser; or

  (ii)   under subsection   83(2) by the renunciation of the holder's rights against an indorser against whom the first - mentioned indorser would have had a right of recourse; and

  (b)   a person takes the cheque without notice of the renunciation;

the person may enforce payment of the cheque as if the first - mentioned indorser had not been discharged.


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