UNCITRAL Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes, 1988

CHAPTER I. - Sphere Of Application And Form Of The Instrument

CHAPTER II. - Interpretation

Section 1. - General provisions

Section 2. - Interpretation of formal requirements

Section 3. - Completion of an incomplete instrument

CHAPTER III. - Transfer

CHAPTER IV. - Rights And Liabilities

Section 1. - The rights of a holder and of a protected holder

Section `2. - Liabilities of the parties

A. - General provisions

B. - The drawer

C. - The maker

D. - The drawee and the acceptor

E. - The endorser

F. - The transferor by endorsement or by mere delivery

G. - The guarantor

CHAPTER `V. - Presentment, Dishonour By Non-Acceptance Or Non-Payment, And Recourse

Section `1. - Presentment for acceptance and dishonour by non-acceptance

Section `2. - Presentment for payment and dishonour by non-payment

Section `3. - Recourse

A. - Protest

B. - Notice of dishonour

Section 4. - Amount payable

CHAPTER VI. - Discharge

Section 1. - Discharge by payment

Section 2. - Discharge of other parties

CHAPTER VII. - Lost Instruments

CHAPTER VIII. - Limitation (Prescription)

CHAPTER IX. - Final Provisions

[Post Provisions]

[Post Clauses (If any: Signed; Witnessed; Done; Authentic Texts; & Deposited Clauses)]

Annex - Explanatory Note by the UNCITRAL Secretariat on the United Nations Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes *[NOTE]

A. - Background To The Convention

B. - Salient Features Of The Convention

1. Scope of application and form of the instrument

2. Interpretation of the Convention

3. The concepts of "holder" and "protected holder"

6. Other novel provisions of practical importance

Notes

Endnotes

Metadata

SiSU Metadata, document information

Manifest

SiSU Manifest, alternative outputs etc.

UNCITRAL Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes, 1988

United Nations (UN)

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CHAPTER IV. - Rights And Liabilities

Section 1. - The rights of a holder and of a protected holder

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Article 29

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"Protected holder" means the holder of an instrument which was complete when he took it or which was incomplete within the meaning of paragraph`1 of article`12 and was completed in accordance with authority given, provided that when he became a holder:

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(a) He was without knowledge of a defence against liability on the instrument referred to in paragraphs`1`(a), (b), (c) and (e) of article`28;

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(b) He was without knowledge of a valid claim to the instrument of any person;

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(d) The time-limit provided by article`55 for presentment of that instrument for payment had not expired;

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(e) He did not obtain the instrument by fraud or theft or participate in a fraud or theft concerning it.

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