What is a Bank Guarantee? Nature of of a Bank Guarantee. How to stop the invocation of Bank Guarantee?
WHAT IS A BANK GUARANTEE ? A Bank Guarantee is “the common mode, of securing payment of money in commercial dealings as the beneficiary, under the Guarantee, is entitled to realise the whole of the amount under that Guarantee in terms thereof irrespective of any pending dispute between the person on whose behalf the Guarantee was given and the beneficiary. In contracts awarded to private individuals by the Government, which involve huge expenditure, as, for example, construction contracts, Bank Guarantees are usually required to be furnished in favour of the Government to secure payments made to the contractor as "Advance" from time to time during the course of the contract as also to secure 'performance' of the work entrusted under the contract. Such Guarantees are executable in terms thereof on the lapse of the contractor either in the performance of the work or in paying back to the "Government Advance", the Guarantee is invoked and the amount is recov...
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