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No. 3 of 1885.
BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
(8) where the notice is required to be given to any person, it may be given either to the party himself or to his agent in that behalf;
(9) where the drawer or indorser is dead, and the party giving notice knows it, the notice must be given to a personal representative, if such there be, and, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, he can be found;
(10) where the drawer or indorser is bankrupt, the notice may be given either to the party himself or to his trustee or assignee;
(11) where there are two or more drawers or indorsers who are not partners, the notice must be given to each of them, unless one of them has authority to receive such notice for the others;
(12) the notice may be given as soon as the bill is dishonoured and must be given within a reasonable time thereafter. In the absence of special circumstances, notice is not deemed to have been given within a reasonable time, unless-
(a) where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in the same place, the notice is given or sent off in time to reach the latter on the day after the dishonour of the bill;
(b) where the person giving and the person to receive notice reside in different places, the notice is sent off on the day after the dishonour of the bill, if there is a post at a convenient hour on that day, and, if there is no such post on that day, then by the next post thereafter;
(13) where a bill when dishonoured is in the hands of an agent, he may either himself give notice to the parties liable on the bill or he may give notice to his principal. If he gives notice to his principal, he must do so within the same time as if he were the holder, and the principal, upon receipt of such notice, has himself the same time for giving notice as if the agent had been an independent holder;
(14) where a party to a bill receives due notice, he has, after the receipt of such notice, the same period of time for giving notice to antecedent parties that the holder has after the dishonour;
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