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Open at its own address /A10-06V

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 [A10-06V]

As at 8 September 2026. In force from 1 March 1882.

Dates: made 9 December 1881; in force 1 March 1882; ceased none recorded. Gazette: none recorded. Band A.

Cite: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, Act 26 of 1881 [A10-06V]. Machine: A10-06V.

Clauses (6)

Clause 4. promissory note

Clause 5. bill of exchange

Clause 6. cheque

Clause 9. holder in due course

Section 138. Dishonour of cheque for insufficiency, etc., of funds in the account [S10-0J3]

Section 147. Offences to be compoundable [S10-0K1]

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No recital of a power is printed.

Acts on (1)

Cites Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, 1 July 2024.

Sort rules. Subjects by name. Acts by year, then number. Sections in the order of the arrangement. Instruments by date, then number. Amendments by date. An instrument stands under the section its recital names; where the register resolved no section, it stands under No power resolved. Counts are the rows beneath.