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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="4A-103" title_number="4A" title_name="Funds Transfers" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Subject Matter and Definitions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Payment order” means an instruction of a sender to a receiving bank, transmitted orally, electronically, or in writing, to pay, or to cause another bank to pay, a fixed or determinable amount of money to a beneficiary if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The instruction does not state a condition to payment to the beneficiary other than time of payment;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The receiving bank is to be reimbursed by debiting an account of, or otherwise receiving payment from, the sender; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The instruction is transmitted by the sender directly to the receiving bank or to an agent, funds-transfer system, or communication system for transmittal to the receiving bank.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Beneficiary” means the person to be paid by the beneficiary’s bank.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Beneficiary’s bank” means the bank identified in a payment order in which an account of the beneficiary is to be credited pursuant to the order or which otherwise is to make payment to the beneficiary if the order does not provide for payment to an account.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Receiving bank” means the bank to which the sender’s instruction is addressed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Sender” means the person giving the instruction to the receiving bank.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If an instruction complying with subsection (a)(1) of this section is to make more than 1 payment to a beneficiary, the instruction is a separate payment order with respect to each payment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A payment order is issued when it is sent to the receiving bank.</text>
  </level>
</section>
