| 1.
| | This Ordinance may be cited as the Bills of Exchange Ordinance. |
| 2.
| | Interpretation. |
| 3.
| | Bill of exchange defined. |
| 4.
| | Inland and foreign bills. |
| 5.
| | Effect where different parties to bill are the same person. |
| 6.
| | Address to drawee. |
| 7.
| | Certainty required as to payee. |
| 8.
| | What bills are negotiable. |
| 9.
| | Sum payable. [4, 13 of 2025] |
| 10.
| | Bill payable on demand. |
| 11.
| | Bill payable at a future time. |
| 12.
| | Omission of date in bill payable after date, or acceptance after sight. |
| 13.
| | Presumption as to date of being true date. |
| 14.
| | Computation of time of payment.[5, 13 of 2025] |
| 15.
| | [6, 13 of 2025] |
| 16.
| | Special stipulations by drawer or indorser restricting liability. |
| 17.
| | Definition and requisites acceptance. |
| 18.
| | Time for acceptance. |
| 19.
| | General and qualified acceptances. |
| 20.
| | Inchoate instruments or blank signatures. |
| 21.
| | Delivery to complete contract. |
| 22.
| | Capacity of parties. |
| 23.
| | Signature essential to liability. |
| 24.
| | Forged or unauthorized signature. |
| 25.
| | Procuration signatures. |
| 26.
| | Persons signing as agent or in representative capacity. |
| 27.
| | Value defined. |
| 28.
| | Accommodation bill or party. |
| 29.
| | Holder in due course. |
| 30.
| | Presumption of value and good faith. |
| 31.
| | Negotiation defined. |
| 32.
| | Requisites of a valid indorsement. |
| 33.
| | Conditional indorsement. |
| 34.
| | Indorsement in blank. |
| 35.
| | Restrictive indorsement. [7, 13 of 2025] |
| 36.
| | How long bill continues negotiable. |
| 37.
| | Negotiation of bill to party already liable thereon. |
| 38.
| | Rights of the holder. |
| 39.
| | When presentment for acceptance is necessary. |
| 40.
| | Time for presenting bill payable after sight. |
| 41.
| | Rules regarding presentment for acceptance, and excuses for non-presentment. |
| 42.
| | Non-acceptance after customary time. |
| 43.
| | Dishonour by non-acceptance and its consequences. |
| 44.
| | Duties as to qualified acceptances. |
| 45.
| | Presentment for payment. |
| 46.
| | Excuses for delay or non-presentment for payment. |
| 47.
| | Dishonour by non-payment. |
| 48.
| | Notice of dishonour and effect of non-notice. |
| 49.
| | Rules as to notice of dishonour. [8, 13 of 2025] |
| 50.
| | Excuses for giving notice of dishonour. |
| 51.
| | Noting inland bill. |
| 52.
| | Duties of holder as regards drawee or acceptor. |
| 53.
| | Funds in hands of drawee. |
| 54.
| | Liability of acceptor. |
| 55.
| | Liability of drawer. |
| 56.
| | Stranger signing bill liable as indorser. |
| 57.
| | Measure of damages against parties to dishonoured bill. |
| 58.
| | Transferor by delivery and transferee. |
| 59.
| | Payment in due course. |
| 60.
| | Banker paying demand draft whereon indorsement is forged. |
| 61.
| | Acceptor the holder at maturity. |
| 62.
| | Express waiver or renunciation. |
| 63.
| | Cancellation. |
| 64.
| | Alteration of bill. [9, 13 of 2025] |
| 65.
| | Acceptance for honour supra protest. |
| 66.
| | Liability of acceptor for honour. |
| 67.
| | Presentment to acceptor for honour. |
| 68.
| | Payment for honour supra protest. |
| 69.
| | Holder's right to duplicate of lost bill. |
| 70.
| | Action on lost bill. |
| 71.
| | Rules as to sets. |
| 72.
| | Rules where laws conflict. |
| 73.
| | Cheque defined. |
| 74.
| | Presentment of cheque for payment. [10, 13 of 2025] |
| 75.
| | Revocation of bankers authority. |
| 76.
| | General and special crossings defined. [11, 13 of 2025] |
| 77.
| | Crossing by drawer or after issue.[12, 13 of 2025] |
| 78.
| | Crossing a material part of cheque. |
| 79.
| | Duties of banker as to crossed cheque. |
| 80.
| | Protection to banker and drawer where cheque is crossed. [13, 13 of 2025] |
| 81.
| | Effect of
crossing a
cheque
with
words. [6,30 of 1961] [14, 13 of 2025] |
| 82.
| | Protection to collecting banker. [15, 13 of 2025] |
| 82A.
| | Penalties in
respect of
dishonour
of certain
cheques.[16, 13 of 2025] |
| 82B.
| | Institution of
legal action. [16, 13 of 2025] |
| 82C.
| | Jurisdiction. [16, 13 of 2025] |
| 82D.
| | Conclusive
evidence of a
dishonoured
cheque. [16, 13 of 2025] |
| 82E.
| | Presumption
in favour of
the payee or
holder in due
course of the
cheque. [16, 13 of 2025] |
| 82F.
| | Offences by
a body of
persons. [16, 13 of 2025] |
| 83.
| | Extension of sections 76 to 82 to certain drafts on bankers. [17, 13 of 2025] |
| 84.
| | Application of sections 76 to 82 to drafts drawn by a bank on itself.[2, 5 of 1955] |
| 85.
| | Promissory note defined. |
| 86.
| | Delivery necessary, |
| 87.
| | Joint and several notes. |
| 88.
| | Note payable on demand, |
| 89.
| | Presentment of note for payment to render maker liable. |
| 90.
| | Liability of maker. |
| 91.
| | Application of part II to notes. |
| 92.
| | Good faith. |
| 93.
| | Signature. |
| 94.
| | Computation of time. |
| 95.
| | When noting equivalent to protest. |
| 96.
| | Protest when notary not accessible. |
| 97.
| | Dividend warrants may be crossed. |
| 98.
| | Savings. |
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