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Bank Notes (Scotland) Act 1845

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Bank Notes (Scotland) Act 1845

1845 CHAPTER 38

An Act to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes in Scotland.

[21st July 1845]

WHEREAS by an [7 & 8 Vict. c. 32. s. 10.] Act made and passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes, and for giving to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain Privileges for a limited Period, it was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act no Person, other than a Banker who on the Sixth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty-four was lawfully issuing his own Bank Notes, should make or issue Bank Notes in any Part of the United Kingdom: And whereas it is expedient to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes by such Bankers as are now by Law authorized to issue the same in Scotland:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,

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