Mauritius
Government Payable Orders Act
Act 2 of 1955
- Commenced on 1 November 1955
- [This is the version of this document at 30 June 2017.]
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Government Payable Orders Act.2. Interpretation
In this Act—"authorised officer" means a person mentioned in the Second Schedule;"local bank" means any bank or branches of a bank that may be authorised to transact business in Mauritius;"payable order" means an order in the form set out in the First Schedule signed by the authorised officer authorising payment according to the tenor of the order by anyone of the paying agents or, where so specified, by one of the paying agents to the exclusion of any other of any sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person;"paying agent" means any local bank or any district cashier or officer for the time being in charge of a district cashier’s office or any postmaster or officer for the time being in charge of a post office other than a postal agency.3. When paying agent not to pay
No payable order shall be paid by a paying agent unless—4. Payable orders deemed to be cheques
5. Presentment for payment
6. Returns to be made by local bank
7. Signature of payee on payable order
A signature purporting to be that of the person to whom payment is authorised under a payable order, appearing on the receipt on the back of the payable order, shall be evidence of the amount payable under the payable order having been received by such person in full settlement of the services specified on the counterfoil of the payable order when such order is surrendered to a paying agent.[S. 7 amended by s. 12(a) of Act 20 of 2002 w.e.f. 30 May 2003.]8. Amendment of Second Schedule
The President may, by Order, amend the Second Schedule.[S. 8 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]History of this document
30 June 2017 this version
Consolidation
01 November 1955
Commenced