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Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881

Section 1, NI Act: Short title

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 1 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in the Act's own words.

The section

1. Short title.

This Act may be called the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881. Local extent. Saving of usages relating to hundis, etc.--It extends to the whole of India 1*** but nothing herein contained affects the 2Indian Paper Currency Act, 1871 (3 of 1871), section 21, or affects any local usage relating to any instrument in an oriental language: Provided that such usages may be excluded by any words in the body of the instrument which indicate an intention that the legal relations of the parties thereto shall he governed by this Act; Commencement.--and it shall come into force on the first day of March, 1882.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

  1. India Code: Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, section 1 (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.