Negotiable Instruments Act : Cheque bearing "not negotiable". Indian Bare Acts :

Negotiable Instruments Act,1881

Act No : 26

Section : Cheque bearing "not negotiable".

130.Cheque bearing "not negotiable". A person taking a cheque crossed generally or specially, bearing in either case the words " not negotiable," shall not have, and shall not be capable of giving, a better title to the cheque than that which the person from whom he took it had.