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← Bills of Exchange Act 1949

Bills of Exchange Act 1949 s 92

s 92 Promissory note defined

92.—(1) A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person or to bearer. (2) An instrument in the form of a note payable to maker’s order is not a note within the meaning of this section unless it is indorsed by the maker. (3) A note is not invalid by reason only that it contains also a pledge of collateral security with authority to sell or dispose thereof. (4) A note which is, or on the face of it purports to be, both made and payable within Singapore is an inland note. Any other note is a foreign note.

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