Law of November 19^{th} 1897 _containing alterations in the Law of May 28^{th} 1882 (R. G. Bl. N^o 56) and decisions with regard to the Orders' (Cheque and Clearing) Service of the Post Office Savings Bank (R. G. Bl. N^o 133)._ With the consent of the two Houses of the Imperial Council I ordain as follows: § 1. The arrangements of the Law of May 28^{th} 1882, contained in the Articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 (_R. G. Bl._ N^o 56) will no longer be in force. In their stead will come the following arrangements, indicated in the articles bearing the same numbers. (_The articles altered: 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13, are with their new text given in Appendix I, containing the Law of May 28^{th} 1882._) § 2. To the existing Orders' (Cheque and Clearing) Service of the Post Office Savings Bank the modifications in the Law of May 28^{th} 1882 (_R. G. Bl._ N^o 56) as well as the alterations refered to in § 1 of the present Law, have no application. An exception, however, occurs with reference to articles 1, 20 and 21 of the above mentioned Law which are to be applied to the aforesaid service conformably to their sense. In addition to which the Government is authorized to regulate this service by way of ordinances. Apart from such regulations the service is to proceed according to the following determinations. § 3. The administration and keeping of the accounts of the Orders' (Cheque and Clearing) Service at the Post Office Savings Bank are to be carried on separately from those of the Savings' service. Participation in the Cheque service with or without inclusion in the Clearing service is to be granted by the Post Office Savings Bank on paying in a guarantee deposit. The Post Office Savings Bank will open an account for each participant. § 4. The guarantee deposit remains in the Post Office Savings Bank as long as the holder of the account continues a participant in the Cheque service and contingently also in the Clearing service. In case a holder of an account on the one side, or the Post Office Savings Bank on the other, wishes to give notice to withdraw, which either can do at any time, the guarantee-deposit will, within a fortnight at latest after receiving the notice, be repaid. To the Post Office Savings belongs also the right by giving notice of the repayment of the guarantee-deposit to cause the immediate withdrawal of a participant and it has also the right to decline, without giving any reason a request to participate in the Cheque and Clearing service. § 5. The amount of the guarantee-deposit, which is on every occasion to be paid in specie, will be always fixed by way of ordinance. This fixing can be arranged in such a way, that in the event of the whole transactions exceeding an agreed maximum sum the guarantee deposit is to be increased. § 6. The rate of interest for deposits in the Orders' (Cheque and Clearing) service cannot rise higher than two per cent per annum.