NIA 1 — Short title

Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Statutory text

This Act  may be called the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881.
Local  extent.  Saving  of  usages  relating  to  hundis,  etc.—It extends to the  whole of India

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nothing herein contained affects the

Indian Paper Currency Act, 1871 (3 of 1871), section 21, or affects
any local usage relating to any instrument in an oriental language:
Provided  that  such  usages  may be  excluded  by  any  words  in  the  body  of  the  instrument  which
indicate an intention that the legal relations of the parties thereto shall he governed by this Act;
Commencement.—and it shall come into force on the first day of March, 1882.
2. [Repeal of enactments.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1891(12 of 1891), s. 2 and the Schedule I.

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