gg;;fand - Sovereign Base Areas Cyprus

SUPPLEMENT No. 2TOTHE SOVEREIGN BASE AREAS GAZETTENo. 772 of 15th April, 1981.L E G I S L A T I O NAN ORDINANCETO AMEND THE CRIMINAL CODE.ORDINANCE ‘7 OF 1987.K.W. HAYR,ADMINISTRATOR31st Marda, 1987.BE it enacted by the Administrator of the Sovereign BaseAreas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia as follows :-1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Code Shorttitle.(Amendment) Ordinance, 1987 and shall be read as one withCap.lSPthe Criminal Code, as amended from time to time (hereinafterreferred to as “the principal Ordinance”).2. Section 113 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amendedby deleting the words “a summary trial or in a preliminaryinquiry” appearing in the fifth line of subsection (2) thereof andsubstituting therefor the words “any trial”.gg;;fandOrdinances11/63,17/63,10/66,8/72,1/73,4/74,7/79 and 8/82.Section113short ti palamended.3. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting Newsectionimmediately after Section 305 thereof the following new headingand Section to be numbered 305A;,a;ipal:-“CHEQUES WITHOUT SECURITY.Issue of cheques 305A.-(1) Any person who issues a chequewithout security.which on presentation to the Bank on which it wasissued, within a reasonable time from the dateon which such cheque becomes payable, is nothonoured because of the lack of liquid assets heldby the Drawer in such Bank, and fails to honoursuch cheque within fifteen days from the date onwhich he first has knowledge that the said chequehas been presented and not honoured, shall beOrdinance.

14guilty of an offence for which he shall be liable,on conviction, to imprisonment for a term notexceeding six months, unless he proves that atthe time of issuing the cheque he had reasonablecause to believe that on presentation of suchcheque there were liquid assets in the Banksufficient to honour it.II1(2) Any person who, without reasonable excuse,causes a cheque issued by him not to be honoured,shall be guilty of an offence for which he shall beliable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a termnot exceeding six months unless he proves thathe had reasonable cause to believe that he had aright to cause such cheque to be dishonoured orcancelled.(3) This Section shall not apply to any chequewhich is not in satisfaction of an obligation for thebreach of which the drawer would be liable incivil proceedings.”.31st March, 1987.(128/2/2)J. P. COLSTON,Acting Chief Oficer.