South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) A person who
obtains any chattel, money, valuable security, credit, benefit or advantage by
passing a cheque which is not paid on presentation is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $10 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.
(2) It is a defence to
a charge for an offence against subsection (1) to prove that the
defendant—
(a) had
reasonable grounds for believing that the cheque would be paid in full on
presentation; and
(b) had
no intent to defraud.
(3) The fact that at
the time when the cheque was passed there were some funds to the credit of the
account on which the cheque was drawn is not of itself a defence.