 bill no 186-c  of  2015 the negotiable instruments (amendment) bill, 2015 a billfurther to amend the negotiable instruments act, 1881be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the negotiable instruments (amendment) act, 2015(2) it shall be deemed to have come into force on the 15th day of june, 2015short title and commencement26 of 1881amendment of section 62 in the negotiable instruments act, 1881 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), in section 6,—5     (i) in explanation i, for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—'(a) "a cheque in the electronic form" means a cheque drawn in electronic form by using any computer resource and signed in a secure system with digital signature (with or without biometrics signature) and asymmetric crypto system or with electronic signature, as the case may be;';(ii) after explanation ii, the following explanation shall be inserted, namely:—21 of 20005'explanation iii—for the purposes of this section, the expressions"asymmetric crypto system", "computer resource", "digital signature", "electronic form" and "electronic signature" shall have the  same meanings respectively assigned to them in the information technology act, 2000'3 in the principal act, section 142 shall be numbered as sub-section (1) thereof and after sub-section (1) as so numbered, the following sub-section  shall be inserted, namely:—amendment of section 142"(2) the offence under section 138 shall be inquired into and tried only by a court within whose local jurisdiction,—10(a) if the cheque is delivered for collection through an account, the branch of the bank where the payee or holder in due course, as the case may be, maintains the account, is situated; or15(b) if the cheque is presented for payment by the payee or holder in due course, otherwise through an account, the branch of the drawee bank where the drawer maintains the account, is situated20explanation— for the purposes of clause (a), where a  cheque is delivered for collection at any branch of the bank of the payee or holder in due course, then, the cheque shall be deemed to have been delivered to the branch of the bank in which the payee or holder in due course, as the case may be, maintains the account"4 in the principal act, after section 142, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—insertion of new section 142avalidation for transfer of pending cases2 of 197425"142a (1) notwithstanding anything contained in the code of criminal procedure, 1973 or any judgment, decree, order or direction of any court, all cases arising out of section 138 which were pending in any court, whether filed before it or transferred to it, before the commencement of the negotiable instruments (amendment) act, 2015 shall be transferred to the court having jurisdiction under sub-section (2) of section 142 as if that sub-section had been in force at all material times30 35(2) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) of section 142 or sub-section (1), where the payee or the holder in due course, as the case may be, has filed a complaint against the drawer of a cheque in the court having jurisdiction under sub-section (2) of section 142 or the case has been transferred to that court under sub-section (1) and such complaint is pending in that court, all subsequent complaints arising out of section 138 against the same drawer shall be filed before the same court irrespective of whether those cheques were delivered for collection or presented for payment within the territorial jurisdiction of that court40(3) if, on the date of the commencement of the negotiable instruments(amendment) act, 2015, more than one prosecution filed by the same payee or holder in due course, as the case may be, against the same drawer of cheques is pending before different courts, upon the said fact having been brought to the notice of the court, the court shall transfer the case to the court having jurisdiction under sub-section (2) of section 142 before which the first case was filed and is pending, as if that sub-section had been in force at all material times" 5 (1) the negotiable instruments (amendment) ordinance, 2015, is hereby repealedrepeal and savingsord 6 of 201545  (2) notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal act, as amended by the said ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the principal act, as amended by this act lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the negotiable instruments act, 1881————(as passed by lok sabha)gmgipmrnd—2100ls(s3)—06-08-2015