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Section 7

Certainty required as to payee

of Bills of Exchange Act 1949

ActIn forceProvision 7 of 107
Section 7
(1)

Where a bill is not payable to bearer, the payee must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.

(2)

A bill may be made payable to two or more payees jointly,or it may be made payable in the alternative to one of two, or one or some of several payees. A bill may also be made payable to the holder of an office for the time being.

(3)

Where the payee is a fictitious or non-existing person the bill may be treated as payable to bearer.