anyone know the laws on cheques?

dawn_b

thanks everyone for your advice.

1) yes it is a business account for a amateur, non-profit, sports club.

2) it is a bit difficult to present cheques at the right time because it is a postal only account. that's why we ask members to post-date them.

I daresay you could sign a cheque Lord Lucan and it would still be processed these days :sad: Or even Shergar. (PS I'm not condoning this btw.)

MarkyMarkD

Getting them to post-date the cheques is a waste of time.

Let me run through this again.

You are saying that YOU deposited a cheque which had a future date on it, before that date had arrived, in the hope that it wouldn't get cleared too soon?

That's your fault.

If you choose to accept post-dated cheques (and there's no need to) then you should just bank them on the correct date. And the fact that it's a postal account doesn't affect that - if you post them ONE working day before the date written on them, there's no way they will clear too soon.