Western Australia

Warrants For Goods Indorsement Act 1898

Western Australia

Warrants For Goods Indorsement Act 1898

CONTENTS

1.Certificate, warrant, or order for delivery of goods may be transferred by indorsement and delivery1

2.Short title2

NOTES

Western Australia

Warrants For Goods Indorsement Act 1898

An Act to enable certain Warrants for Goods to be transferred by Indorsement and Delivery.

[Assented to 9 September 1898.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: — 

1.Certificate, warrant, or order for delivery of goods may be transferred by indorsement and delivery

Where, after the commencement of this Act, any warehousekeeper’s certificate, wharfinger’s certificate, dock warrant, or other warrant or order for delivery of goods (hereinafter called “the warrant”) is indorsed by the person to whom the same has been issued or given, or by his agent duly authorized in that behalf, and is delivered to any person, such last‑mentioned person and any subsequent holder of the warrant in good faith shall, as against the person by whom the warrant has been issued or given, be entitled to the goods and the possession thereof to the same extent as if the contract contained in or evidenced by such warrant had been made with the person to whom the warrant is indorsed and delivered as aforesaid, or the said holder thereof, as the case may be.

2.Short title

This Act may be cited as the Warrants for Goods Indorsement Act 1898.

Notes

1.This is a compilation of the Warrants for Goods Indorsement Act 1898 and includes all amendments effected by the other Acts referred to in the following Table.

Table of Acts

Act	Number and Year	Assent	Commencement	Miscellaneous
Warrants for Goods Indorsement Act 1898	3 of 1898	9 September 1898	9 September 1898