Hong Kong Ordinances

BILLS OF EXCHANGE ORDINANCE

- CHAPTER 19

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Definition of bill of exchange
   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 future time
   12.     Omission of date in bill payable after date
   13.     Ante-dating and post-dating
   14.     Computation of time of payment
   15.     Referee in case of need
   16.     Optional stipulations by drawer or indorser
   17.     Definition and requisites of acceptance
   18.     Time for acceptance
   19.     General and qualified acceptance
   20.     Inchoate instruments
   21.     Delivery
   22.     Capacity of parties
   23.     Signature essential to liability
   24.     Forged or unauthorized signature
   25.     Procuration signature
   26.     Person signing as agent or in representative capacity
   26A.    Corporate signatures
   27.     Value and holder for value
   28.     Accommodation party
   29.     Holder in due course
   30.     Presumption of value and good faith
   31.     Negotiation of bill
   32.     Requisites of 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 and powers of 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
   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
   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
   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 bill in set
   72.     Rules where laws conflict
   73.     Definition of cheque
   73A.    Presentment of cheque for payment: alternative means of presentment
           by banker
   73B.    Duties of holder as regards cheque presented under section 73A(1)
   74.     Delay in presentment of cheque for payment
   75.     Revocation of banker's authority
   76.     Definition of general and special crossings
   77.     Crossing by drawer or after issue
   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
   81.     Effect of crossing on holder
   82.     Drafts on bankers payable to order on demand sufficient authority
           for payment without proof of indorsement
   83.     Protection of bankers paying unindorsed or irregularly indorsed
           cheques, etc.
   84.     Rights of bankers collecting cheques not indorsed by holders
   85.     Unindorsed cheques as evidence of payment
   86.     Protection of bankers collecting payment of cheques, etc.
   87.     Application of provisions of this part to instruments not being
           bills of exchange
   88.     Saving
   89.     Definition of promissory note
   90.     Delivery necessary
   91.     Joint and several notes
   92.     Note payable on demand
   93.     Presentment for payment
   94.     Liability of marker
   95.     Application of Part II to notes
   96.     Good faith
   97.     Signature
   98.     Computation of time
   99.     When noting equivalent to protest
   100.    Protest when notary not accessible
   101.    Crossing of dividend warrant
   102.    Saving
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