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Section 116, NI Act: Acceptance and payment without protest

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 116 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in the Act's own words.

The section

116. Acceptance and payment without protest.

A drawee in case of need may accept and pay the bill of exchange without previous protest.

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 116 (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.