Enter the dates you have
Your dates
The date written on the instrument, not the date you received it.
Receipt, not the date printed on the memo, if they differ.
Date of receipt by the drawer. Leave blank if the notice has not gone yet.
Where these periods come from. A cheque must be presented within three
months of the date it bears. On dishonour, the payee has thirty days from receipt of the
bank's memo to issue a written demand. The drawer then has fifteen days from receipt of that
demand to pay. The offence arises only when those fifteen days expire without payment, and
the complaint must be filed within one month of that date.
Result
Your timeline
Enter the date on the cheque and the date you received the return memo, then press Work out the dates.
Read this before relying on any date above. This is a general calculator
published for legal awareness. It applies the ordinary periods and takes no account of
re-presentation of the cheque, disputes about service, condonation of delay, court holidays,
the position of a company or its directors, or anything else particular to your matter.
It is not legal advice, and no advocate–client relationship arises from using it.
Check every date against the statute and take advice on your own facts before acting.
If a date has already passed
It may still be worth asking
Delay is sometimes condonable, and a cheque can in some circumstances be presented again. Whether either applies depends on the facts.