can you insist on your salary being paid to you in cash?

Not true. I have already explained why and how someone would.

The First Lord of the Treasury?

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Tom Moore
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"Tom Moore" wrote

I can't find where you explained it. Care to re-cap?

Anyway, anyone *insisting* on Legal Tender for a large transaction like that should expect to be looked on with suspicion!

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Tim

Not the SI itself but this is a useful link...

Rachel

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Rachel Willmer

How very interesting (to me) that bank of England notes are not legal tender in Scotland. Not that these things worry me as they did when I was a young man who often went home to Scotland, returning with Scottish banknotes, and psyched up to argue with the local shop-keepers about the 'legal tender-esness" of that Scottish £5 note, which, if I recall correctly, LOOKED like a banknote, whereas the English £5 notes were white and could nowadays be produced on any laser printer ( one feels; now, if not then).

Soooooo, large bags of £1 and £2 coins are the only safe way od travelling over the border - hard on the pockets?

Nowadays, I spend my Scottish banknotes in the M6 service stations - they must get a lot of them :-)

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gordon

In message , gordon writes

Even worse in the sporran.

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Mike

Insist on Legal Tender bank notes, in order to back out of a house sale, perhaps following sharp price rises.

I always insist on used non consecutive bank notes, served in a brief case, by men smoking cigars and wearing bowler hats. No one regards me with suspicion.

If anyone sees Jack the Pratt McVitie, who left me one thousand single dollar bills, printed on the reverse, "In God we Trust" and underneath "(all others pay cash)" let me know.

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Tom Moore

I used to work for a bus company, and at the start of the summer, had a lot of Scots on holiday with their bank notes. The clerical staff refused to accept them, in the shift's takings, because "they are not legal tender."

So I accepted them, took them to the bank over the road, and exchanged them for the "real thing." I always had to go to a Bank, to exchange notes, especially large denomination notes, with which tourists always pay, for coins.

I never had to queue, because bus shifts never start or end during peek times; so it was minimal effort, and the staff were always polite and friendly.

Big deal. I hate bloody job worths, "it's not legal tender."

You wouldn't turn down Jordan or Britney Speers, just because she was using KY Jelly, would yer?

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Tom Moore

That's unlikely to be practical, because:

(1) The deal you were trying to back out of probably already had a clause defining what form of payment would be accepted, and so the option, at that late a stage, to insist on a different form would not be open to you. -- I concede that this option *would* be open if built into the contract from the outset "just in case".

(2) It wouldn't work as a deterrent anyway, given that the problem of gathering together a few thousand £50 notes is not insurmountable. OK, so in Scotland, where no notes are legal tender, you might need to box up a few tens of gallons of pound coins, but you're still likely to have your bluff called.

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Ronald Raygun

It would seem that your view that you are useful could be about 30 years out of date, too!

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Peter Saxton

It was the Truck Acts that provided for an employee to insist that they be paid in cash if they wanted. The Truck Acts were repealed a number of years ago because of pressure by large employers who were getting tired of having to handle large amounts of cash every week/month/period of your choice.

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lysander

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