Bills of Exchange Act 1882
Bills of Exchange Act 1882 (1882 c. 61)
- Bills of Exchange Act 1882 (1882 c. 61)
- Part I Preliminary
- 1 Short title.
- 2 Interpretation of terms.
- Part II Bills of Exchange
- Form and 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.
- 10 Bill payable on demand.
- 11 Bill payable at a future time.
- 12 Omission of date in bill payable after date.
- 13 Ante-dating and post-dating.
- 14 Computation of time of payment.
- 15 Case of need.
- 16 Optional stipulations by drawer or indorser.
- 17 Definition and requisites of acceptance.
- 18 Time for acceptance.
- 19 General and qualified acceptances.
- 20 Inchoate instruments.
- 21 Delivery.
- Capacity and Authority of Parties
- 22 Capacity of parties.
- 23 Signature essential to liability.
- 24 Forged or unauthorised signature.
- 25 Procuration signatures.
- 26 Person signing as agent or in representative capacity.
- The Consideration for a Bill
- 27 Value and holder for value.
- 28 Accommodation bill or party.
- 29 Holder in due course.
- 30 Presumption of value and good faith.
- Negotiation of Bills
- 31 Negotiation of bill.
- 32 Requisites of a valid indorsement.
- 33 Conditional indorsement.
- 34 Indorsement in blank and special indorsement.
- 35 Restrictive indorsement.
- 36 Negotiation of overdue or dishonoured bill.
- 37 Negotiation of bill to party already liable thereon.
- 38 Rights of the holder.
- General Duties of the Holder
- 39 When presentment for acceptance is necessary.
- 40 Time for presenting bill payable after sight.
- 41 Rules as to presentment for acceptance, and excuses for non-presentment.
- 42 Non-acceptance.
- 43 Dishonour by non-acceptance and its consequences.
- 44 Duties as to qualified acceptances.
- 45 Rules as to 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.
- 50 Excuses for non-notice and delay.
- 51 Noting or protest of bill.
- 52 Duties of holder as regards drawee or acceptor.
- Liabilities of Parties
- 53 Funds in hands of drawee.
- 54 Liability of acceptor.
- 55 Liability of drawer or indorser.
- 56 Stranger signing bill liable as indorser.
- 57 Measure of damages against parties to dishonoured bill.
- 58 Transferor by delivery and transferee.
- Discharge of Bill
- 59 Payment in due course.
- 60 Banker paying demand draft whereon indorsement is forged.
- 61 Acceptor the holder at maturity.
- 62 Express waiver.
- 63 Cancellation.
- 64 Alteration of bill.
- Acceptance and Payment for Honour
- 65 Acceptance for honour supra protest.
- 66 Liability of acceptor for honour.
- 67 Presentment to acceptor for honour.
- 68 Payment for honour supra protest.
- Lost Instruments
- 69 Holder’s right to duplicate of lost bill.
- 70 Action on lost bill.
- Bill in a Set
- 71 Rules as to sets.
- Conflict of Laws
- 72 Rules where laws conflict.
- Part III Cheques on a Banker
- 73 Cheque defined.
- 74 Presentment of cheque for payment.
- 74A Presentment of cheque for payment: alternative place of presentment.
- 74B Presentment of cheque for payment: alternative means of presentment by banker
- 74C Cheques presented for payment under section 74B: disapplication of section 52(4).
- 75 Revocation of banker’s authority.
- Crossed Cheques
- 76 General and special crossings defined.
- 77 Crossing by drawer or after issue.
- 78 Crossing a material part of cheque.
- 79 Duties of banker as to crossed cheques.
- 80 Protection to banker and drawer where cheque is crossed.
- 81 Effect of crossing on holder.
- 81A Non-transferable cheques.
- 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- Part IV Promissory Notes
- 83 Promissory note defined.
- 84 Delivery necessary.
- 85 Joint and several notes.
- 86 Note payable on demand.
- 87 Presentment of note for payment.
- 88 Liability of maker.
- 89 Application of Part II to notes.
- PART 4A Presentment of cheques and other instruments by electronic means
- 89A Presentment of instruments by electronic means
- 89B Instruments to which section 89A applies
- 89C Banker's obligation in relation to accepting physical instrument for presentment
- 89D Copies of instruments and evidence of payment
- 89E Compensation in cases of presentment by electronic means
- 89F Supplementary
- Part V Supplementary
- 90 Good faith.
- 91 Signature.
- 92 Computation of time.
- 93 When noting equivalent to protest.
- 94 Protest when notary not accessible.
- 95 Dividend warrants may be crossed.
- 96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 97 Savings.
- 98 Saving of summary diligence in Scotland.
- 99 Construction with other Acts, &c.
- 100 Parole evidence allowed in certain judicial proceedings in Scotland.
- SCHEDULES
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