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Final Act of the Geneva Conference for the Unification of the Right to Cheque

Signed at Geneva on 19 March 1931

The Governments of Germany, Austria, Belgium, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Denmark, the Free City of Danzig, Ecuador, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Venezuela and Yugoslavia,

Having accepted the invitation addressed to them pursuant to a decision of the Council of the League of Nations, dated 14 June 1929, to take part in an international conference for the unification of the law on exchange letters, notes Orders and Cheques (second session),

As a result, appointed as delegates, technical advisors and secretaries:

(Following are the names of the delegates, technical advisors and secretaries)

Following the deliberations of the minutes of the meetings, the Conference, together with the protocols thereto, prepared the following three conventions:

1.

Uniform Law Convention on the Chèquews ² .

2.

Convention for the Settlement of Certain Cheque Laws ³ .

3.

Cheque Stamp Right Convention ⁴ .

The Conference also expressed the following wishes:

I

The Conference, in order to avoid the adoption of the texts of the Uniform Law in the same language, which presents differences in translation, expresses the wish that States which have the same official language wish to establish by common accord the Official translation of the Uniform Law.

II

The Conference shall express the wish that the High Contracting Parties shall notify each other between the lists of statutory holidays and the other days in which payment may not be required in their respective countries.

III

The Conference also vow that the parties to the Uniform Law on Cheque ⁵ Communicate with each other the text of the most important judicial decisions taken in their respective territories and falling under the application of the said Convention.

IV

The Conference expresses the wish that the High Contracting Parties shall consider the possibility of introducing into their respective legislations a provision prohibiting the use of the word " Check " Or its equivalent in the national language, in securities to which the provisions of the Uniform Law on Cheques do not fully apply ⁶ .

The Conference also notes the importance of this issue to the Rome International Institute for the Unification of Private Law.

V

The Conference shall inform the Council of the League of Nations of the great interest of the periodical publication by the Secretariat of the League of Nations of a compendium of implementing laws and of any official documentation, in particular Decisions of the High Contracting Parties of the High Contracting Parties concerning bills of exchange, promissor notes and cheques.

In witness whereof, the above delegates have signed this Final Act.

Done at Geneva on March 19, nineteen thousand nine hundred thirty and one, in a single copy, to be deposited in the archives of the Secretariat of the League of Nations ⁷ A certified copy shall be transmitted by the Secretary-General of the Society to all Members of the League of Nations and to all non-member States invited to the Conference.

(Suivent signatures)

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RS 11 875; FF 1931 II 341