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WESTPAC AND BANK OF MELBOURNE (CHALLENGE BANK) ACT 1996 - SECT 17

Transitional provisions

    (1)     Without limiting sections 15 and 16, the following provisions have effect in relation to the transferring undertaking—

        (a)     the relationship between Challenge and a customer or depositor of that bank is, on and after the Bank of Melbourne vesting time, between Bank of Melbourne and that customer or depositor, and gives rise to the same rights and the same duties (including rights of set-off) as would have existed at the commencement time if that relationship had been between Bank of Melbourne and the customer or depositor, and so that any instruction, order, direction, mandate or authority given by that customer or depositor to Challenge and subsisting on or given after the Bank of Melbourne vesting time is, unless and until revoked or cancelled, deemed to have been given to Bank of Melbourne;

        (b)     any security held by Challenge as security for the payment of the debts or liabilities (whether present or future, certain or contingent) of any person and transferred to Westpac by Part 2 is by virtue of this Part transferred to Bank of Melbourne at the Bank of Melbourne vesting time, and is to be held by and be available to Bank of Melbourne as security for the payment of those debts and liabilities to Bank of Melbourne (but not, by reason only of this Part, as security for any debt or liability of that person to Bank of Melbourne existing immediately before that time) and, where the security extends to future advances to, or to future liabilities of, that person, the security shall, after that time, subject to any agreement between Bank of Melbourne and that person, be held by and be available to Bank of Melbourne as security for future advances to that person by, and future liabilities of that person to, Bank of Melbourne, to the same extent to which future advances by, or liabilities to, Challenge were secured immediately before the commencement time;

        (c)     Bank of Melbourne is, in relation to any security transferred under this Part and the money secured by the security, entitled to the same rights and priorities and subject to the same liabilities as Challenge would have been entitled and subject to, if the security had continued to be held by Challenge;

        (d)     the custody of any document, goods or thing held by Challenge as bailee for any other person at any office or branch or agency of Challenge transferred to Westpac by Part 2 is by virtue of this Part transferred to Bank of Melbourne at the Bank of Melbourne vesting time, and the rights, duties and liabilities of Challenge under any contract of bailment relating to the document, goods or thing transferred at that time to Westpac are transferred to Bank of Melbourne;

        (e)     any negotiable instrument or order for the payment of money, whether drawn, given, accepted or endorsed before, at or after the commencement time, which is expressed to be drawn by, drawn on, or given to, or accepted or endorsed by Challenge, or payable at any place of business of Challenge, has the same effect on and after the Bank of Melbourne vesting time as if it had been drawn by, drawn on, or given to, or accepted or endorsed by, Bank of Melbourne, or payable at the same place of business of Bank of Melbourne;

        (f)     any information held immediately before the commencement time by Challenge relating to a customer or depositor of that bank is available to and may be used by Bank of Melbourne on and after the Bank of Melbourne vesting time.

    (2)     Despite subsection (1) and sections 15 and 16

        (a)     Bank of Melbourne is, in relation to any security held by it over any part of the transferring undertaking that consists of money on deposit with Challenge immediately before the commencement time, entitled to the same rights and priorities and subject to the same liabilities as it would have been had the money on deposit continued to be held by Challenge; and

        (b)     Bank of Melbourne is, in relation to any security held by Challenge immediately before the commencement time over any part of the transferring undertaking that consists of money on deposit with Bank of Melbourne, entitled to the same rights and priorities and subject to the same liabilities as Challenge would have been had the security continued to be held by Challenge.



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