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Certainty required as to payee
Cap. 245, s. 7 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Where a bill is not payable to bearer the payee must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.
(2) A bill may be made payable to,
(a) two or more payees jointly;
(b) in the alternative, to one of two or one of some or several payees; or
(c) to the holder of an office for the time being.
(3) Where the payee is a fictitious or non-existing person,
the bill may be treated as payable to bearer.
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