Bills Of Exchange

Cap. 245 · Revised Edition 2020 · 98 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Definition of bill of exchange
s. 4Inland and foreign bills
s. 5Effect where different parties to bill are the same person
s. 6Address to drawee
s. 7Certainty required as to payee
s. 8What bills are negotiable
s. 9Sum payable
s. 10Bill payable on demand
s. 11Bill payable at a future time
s. 12Omission of date in bill payable after date, or acceptance after sight
s. 13Presumption as to date being true date
s. 14Computation of time of payment
s. 15Referee in case of need
s. 16Optional stipulations by drawer or indorser
s. 17Definition and requisites of acceptance
s. 18Time for acceptance
s. 19General and qualified acceptances
s. 20Inchoate instruments
s. 21Delivery
s. 22Capacity of parties
s. 23Signature essential to liability
s. 24Forged or unauthorised signature
s. 25Procuration signature
s. 26Persons signing as agent or in representative capacity
s. 27What signatures to be attested
s. 28Value and holder for value
s. 29Accommodation bill or party
s. 30Holder in due course
s. 31Presumption of value and good faith
s. 32Negotiation of bill
s. 33Requisites of a valid endorsement
s. 34Conditional endorsement
s. 35Endorsement in blank and special endorsement
s. 36Restrictive endorsement
s. 37Negotiation of overdue or dishonoured bill
s. 38Negotiation of bill to party already liable thereon
s. 39Rights of the holder
s. 40When presentment for acceptance is necessary
s. 41Time for presenting bill payable after sight
s. 42Rules as to presentment for acceptance and excuses for non- presentment
s. 43Non-acceptance
s. 44Dishonour by non-acceptance and its consequences
s. 45Duties as to qualified acceptances
s. 46Rules as to presentment for payment
s. 47Excuses for delay or non-presentment for payment
s. 48Dishonour by non-payment
s. 49Notice of dishonour and effect of non-notice
s. 50Rules as to notice of dishonour
s. 51Excuses for non-notice and delay
s. 52Noting or protest of bill
s. 53Duties of holder as regards drawee or acceptor
s. 54Funds in hands of drawee
s. 55Liability of acceptor
s. 56Liability of drawer or indorser
s. 57Stranger signing bill liable as indorser
s. 58Measure of damages against parties to dishonoured bill
s. 59Transferor by delivery and transferee
s. 60Payment in due course
s. 61Banker paying demand draft whereon endorsement is forged
s. 62Acceptor the holder at maturity
s. 63Express waiver
s. 64Cancellation
s. 65Alteration of bill
s. 66Acceptor for honour supra protest
s. 67Liability of acceptor for honour
s. 68Presentment to acceptor for honour
s. 69Payment for honour supra protest
s. 70Holder’s right to duplicate of lost bill
s. 71Action on lost bill
s. 72Rules as to sets
s. 73Rules where laws conflict
s. 74Cheques defined
s. 75Presentment of cheque for payment
s. 76Revocation of banker’s authority
s. 77Definition of general and special crossings
s. 78Crossing by drawer or after issue
s. 79Crossing a material part of a cheque
s. 80Duties of banker as to crossed cheques
s. 81Protection to drawer and banker where cheque is crossed
s. 82Effect of crossing on holder
s. 83Protection to collecting banker
s. 84Application of sections 77 to 83 inclusive to banker’s draft
s. 85Definition of promissory note
s. 86Delivery necessary
s. 87Joint and several notes
s. 88Note payable on demand
s. 89Presentment of note for payment
s. 90Liability of maker
s. 91Application of Part II to note
s. 92Good faith
s. 93Signature
s. 94Computation of time
s. 95When noting equivalent to protest
s. 96Protest when notary not accessible
s. 97Dividend warrants may be crossed
s. 98Savings-Bankruptcy