### Bills of Exchange Ordinance 《匯票條例》

67. Presentment to acceptor for honour
(1) Where a dishonoured bill has been accepted for honour suprà protest or contains a reference in case of need, it must be protested for non-payment before it is presented for payment to the acceptor for honour or referee in case of need.
(2) Where the address of the acceptor for honour is in the same place where the bill is protested for non-payment, the bill must be presented to him not later than the day following its maturity; and where the address of the acceptor for honour is in some place other than the place where the bill was protested for non-payment, the bill must be forwarded not later than the day following its maturity for presentment to him.
(3) Delay in presentment or non-presentment is excused by any circumstance which would excuse delay in presentment for payment or non-presentment for payment.
(4) When a bill is dishonoured by the acceptor for honour, it must be protested for non-payment by him.
[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 67 U.K.]

68. Payment for honour suprà protest
(1) Where a bill has been protested for non-payment, any person may intervene and pay it suprà protest, for the honour of any party liable thereon or for the honour of the person for whose account the bill is drawn.
(2) Where two or more persons offer to pay a bill for the honour of different parties, the person whose payment will discharge most parties to the bill shall have the preference.
(3) Payment for honour suprà protest, in order to operate as such and not as a mere voluntary payment, must be attested by a notarial act of honour which may be appended to the protest or form an extension of it.
(4) The notarial act of honour must be founded on a declaration made by the payer for honour, or his agent in that behalf, declaring his intention to pay the bill for honour and for whose honour he pays.
(5) Where a bill has been paid for honour, all parties subsequent to the party for whose honour it is paid are discharged, but the payer for honour is subrogated for, and succeeds to both the rights and duties of, the holder as regards the party for whose honour he pays and all parties liable to that party.
(6) The payer for honour, on paying to the holder the amount of the bill and the notarial expenses incidental to its dishonour, is entitled to receive both the bill itself and the protest. If the holder does not on demand deliver them up, he shall be liable to the payer for honour in damages.
(7) Where the holder of a bill refuses to receive payment suprà protest, he shall lose his right of recourse against any party who would have been discharged by such payment.
[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 68 U.K.]

### Bills of Exchange Ordinance 《匯票條例》

69. Holder’s right to duplicate of lost bill
(1) Where a bill has been lost before it is overdue, the person who was the holder of it may apply to the drawer to give him another bill of the same tenor, giving security to the drawer, if required, to indemnify him against all persons whomsoever in case the bill alleged to have been lost shall be found again.
(2) If the drawer, on request as aforesaid, refuses to give such duplicate bill, he may be compelled to do so.
[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 69 U.K.]

70. Action on lost bill
In any action or proceeding upon a bill, the court or a judge may order that the loss of the instrument shall not be set up, provided an indemnity be given, to the satisfaction of the court or judge, against the claims of any other person upon the instrument in question.
[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 70 U.K.]

71. Rules as to bill in set
(1) Where a bill is drawn in a set, each part of the set being numbered and containing a reference to the other parts, the whole of the parts constitute one bill.
(2) Where the holder of a set indorses two or more parts to different persons, he is liable on every such part, and every indorser subsequent to him is liable on the part he has himself indorsed as if the said parts were separate bills.
(3) Where two or more parts of a set are negotiated to different holders in due course, the holder whose title first accrues is, as between such holders, deemed the true owner of the bill; but nothing in this subsection shall affect the rights of a person who in due course accepts or pays the part first presented to him.
(4) The acceptance may be written on any part, and it must be written on one part only. If the drawee accepts more than one part and such accepted parts get into the hands of different holders in due course, he is liable on every such part as if it were a separate bill.
(5) When the acceptor of a bill drawn in a set pays it without requiring the part bearing his acceptance to be delivered up to him, and that part at maturity is outstanding in the hands of a holder in due course, he is liable to the holder thereof.
(6) Subject to the preceding rules, where any one part of a bill drawn in a set is discharged by payment or otherwise, the whole bill is discharged.
[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 71 U.K.]

### Bills of Exchange Ordinance 《匯票條例》

72. Rules where laws conflict
Where a bill drawn in one country is negotiated, accepted, or payable in another, the rights, duties, and liabilities of the parties thereto are determined as follows—
(a)  the validity of a bill, as regards requisites in form, is determined by the law of the place of issue, and the validity, as regards requisites in form, of the supervening contracts, such as acceptance or indorsement or acceptance suprà protest, is determined by the law of the place where such contract was made:

Provided that—
(i) where a bill is issued out of Hong Kong, it is not invalid by reason only that it is not stamped in accordance with the law of the place of issue;
(ii) where a bill issued out of Hong Kong conforms, as regards requisites in form, to the law of Hong Kong, it may, for the purpose of enforcing payment thereof, be treated as valid as between all persons who negotiate, hold, or become parties to it in Hong Kong;

(b)  subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the interpretation of the drawing, indorsement, acceptance, or acceptance suprà protest of a bill is determined by the law of the place where such contract is made:
Provided that where an inland bill is indorsed in a place outside Hong Kong, the indorsement shall, as regards the payer, be interpreted according to the law of Hong Kong; (Amended 23 of 1998 s. 2) 
(c) the duties of the holder with respect to presentment for acceptance or payment and the necessity for or sufficiency of a protest or notice of dishonour, or otherwise, are determined by the law of the place where the act is done or the bill is dishonoured;
(d) where a bill is drawn out of but payable in Hong Kong and the sum payable is not expressed in the currency of Hong Kong, the amount, if the bill is paid in Hong Kong and in the currency of Hong Kong, shall, in the absence of any express stipulation, be calculated according to the rate of exchange for sight drafts in Hong Kong on the day on which the bill is actually paid; and (Replaced 18 of 1921 s. 2)
(e) where a bill is drawn in one country and is payable in another, the due date thereof is determined according to the law of the place where it is payable.
(Amended 60 of 1999 s. 3)[cf. 1882 c. 61 s. 72 U.K.]