Banking law in Australia / Alan L. Tyree.

Chatswood, N.S.W. : Butterworths, 2002.

4th ed.

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Banking law -- Australia.

Part I : Regulation

1. Structure of Australian banking

2. Prudential supervision

3. Financial transactions reports act 1988

4. Proceeds of crime act 1987

Part II : Banker and customer

5. The 'business of banking'

6. Legal relationships

7. Who is a customer?

8. Consequences of the contractual relationship

9. Limitation acts; Special customers

Part III : The current account

11. Appropriation

12. Combining accounts

13. Trust accounts

14. Statements and passbooks

15. Stopping the account

16. Garnishee orders

Part IV : Duties of the parties

17. The duty of secrecy

18. Privacy act 1988 (Cth)

19. Bankers references

20. Duty to question a valid mandate

21. Duties to third parties

22. Safe custody

23. Duties of the customer

Part V : Cheques

24. The origins of cheques

25. Cheque formalities

26. The drawer-payee contract

27. The duty to pay cheques

28. Wrongful dishonour

29. Wrongful payment

30. Defences of the paying bank

31. Collecting cheques

32. Misappropriated cheques

33. Defences of the holder

34. Defences of the collecting bank

35. Payment under a mistake

Part VI : Payments

36. Other payment systems

37. Legal problems of payment systems

Part VII : Consumer protection

38. The code of banking practice

39. The EFT code of conduct

40. The Australian banking industry ombudsman

41. Credit cards

Part VIII : Negotiable instruments

42. Negotiability

43. Types of negotiable instruments

44. The rights of the holder

45. Liabilities of parties

46. The chain of liabilities

47. Termination or alteration of liabilites

48. Special problems of transfer/negotiation

Part IX : Lending

Lending : general principles

50. Borrowers

51. Securities

52. Security over real property

53. Securitites over chattels

54. Securities over choses in action

55. Company securities

56. The banker's lien

57. Guarantees

58. Avoidence of guarantees

59. Guarantor's rights against the other parties

Part X : International banking

60. The mareva order

61. Documentary credits.

Includes bibliography and index.

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