BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
No. 3 of 1885.
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(2) Where a qualified acceptance is taken, and the drawer or an indorser has not expressly or impliedly authorised the holder to take a qualified acceptance or does not subsequently assent thereto, such drawer or indorser is discharged from his liability on the bill. The provisions of this sub-section do not apply to a partial acceptance, whereof due notice has been given. Where a foreign bill has been accepted as to part, it must be protested as to the balance.
(3) When the drawer or indorser of a bill receives notice of a qualified acceptance, and does not within a reasonable time express his dissent to the holder, he shall be deemed to have assented thereto.
presentment
45. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, a bill must be duly presented for payment. If it is not so presented, the drawer and indorsers shall be discharged. A bill is duly presented for payment which is presented in accordance with the following rules:
(1) where the bill is not payable on demand, presentment must be made on the day it falls due;
(2) where the bill is payable on demand, then, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, presentment must be made within a reasonable time after its issue in order to render the drawer liable, and within a reasonable time after its indorsement, in order to render the indorser liable. In determining what is a reasonable time, regard shall be had to the nature of the bill, the usage of trade with respect to similar bills, and the facts of the particular case;
(3) presentment must be made by the holder, or by some person authorised to receive payment on his behalf, at a reasonable hour on a business day, at the proper place as hereinafter defined, either to the person designated by the bill as payer or to some person authorised to pay or refuse payment on his behalf, if, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, such person can there be found;
(4) a bill is presented at the proper place:
(a) where a place of payment is specified in the bill and the bill is there presented;
(b) where no place of payment is specified, but the address of the drawee or acceptor is given in the bill, and the bill is there presented;