Section 17: Time for acceptance
consolidated text (as at 2011, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
17. Time for acceptance
A bill may be accepted—
(a) before it has been signed by the drawer, or while otherwise
incomplete;
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(b) where it is overdue, or after it has been dishonoured by a previous refusal to accept, or by non-payment;
(c) where a bill payable after sight is dishonoured by nonacceptance, and the drawee subsequently accepts it, the holder,
in the absence of any different agreement, is entitled to have the
bill accepted as of the date of first presentment to the drawee
for acceptance.