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Kathmandu University School of Law, Kusl BBM, LL.B Semester VII Course Syllabus

This course syllabus covers Banking Law over 6 learning units across 48 contact hours. It aims to acquaint students with general banking principles, regulations, and legal issues. Key topics include the banking system evolution in Nepal; banker-customer relationships; lending practices and debt recovery; banking frauds; negotiable instruments; and ancillary services like remittances and e-banking. Students will be evaluated based 50% on in-semester work and 50% on an end-semester exam.

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Kathmandu University School of Law, Kusl BBM, LL.B Semester VII Course Syllabus

This course syllabus covers Banking Law over 6 learning units across 48 contact hours. It aims to acquaint students with general banking principles, regulations, and legal issues. Key topics include the banking system evolution in Nepal; banker-customer relationships; lending practices and debt recovery; banking frauds; negotiable instruments; and ancillary services like remittances and e-banking. Students will be evaluated based 50% on in-semester work and 50% on an end-semester exam.

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KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, KUSL

BBM,LL.B Semester VII

Course Syllabus

Course Title Banking Law


Course Code LBNK 453
Credit Hours Three 3
Course Objective This course is designed to primarily acquaint the students with the general
principles of banking law and its operational parameters. It will cover the type of
banks, their functions and relationship with customers and the banking frauds, the
recovery of debts and the depth and breadth of bank regulatory law as it is applied
to their clients. Several policy initiatives and legislative amendments made in
recent years have been covered which deal with current legal problems in the
banking sector and their solutions.
Learning Unit
Learning Unit 1. Introductory
One Net contact 1.1 Banking system in Nepal: origin and evolution
hours 8 hours. 1.2 Kinds of banks and their functions
1.3 Bank and Financial Institutions Act and banking regulations
1.4 NRB Act 2002 and Nepal Rastra Bank as the principal regulator in the
banking sector
Learning Unit 2. Relationship between banker and customer
Two 2.1 Definition of banker and customer, general relationship, special relationship,
Net contact hours banker’s duty of secrecy, banker’s duty to honour cheques, banker’s lien, and
6 hours. banker’s right to set off
2.2 Appropriation of payments
2.3 Garnishee order
2.4 Customer’s duties towards his banker
2.5 Opening of new accounts
2.6 Special types of customers - illiterate persons, lunatics, executors
2.7 Precautions required in case of administrators, clubs, societies and charitable
institutions to open an account
Learning Unit 3. Lending, securities and recovery by banks
Three 3.1 Principles of lending
Net contact hours 3.2 Position of weaker sections
10 hours. 3.3 Nature of securities and risks involved
3.4 Recovery of debts with and without intervention of courts / tribunal
3.5 Recovery of debts due to banks and financial institutions
3.6 Securitization and reconstruction of financial assets and enforcement of
security interests law
3.7 Employment of funds - loans and advances - guarantees
3.8 Advances secured by collateral securities
3.9 Agency services
3.10 Financing of exports
3.11 Special banking services
3.12 Advances to priority sectors and credit guarantee schemes
3.13 Securitization Law
Learning Unit 4. Banking frauds
Four 4.1 Nature of banking frauds
Net contact hours 4.2 Legal regime to control banking frauds
8 hours. 4.3 Recent trends in banking: automatic teller machine and internet banking,
smart
cards, credit cards
Learning Unit 5. Law relating to negotiable instruments
Five 5.1 Negotiable instruments, kinds, holder and holder in due course, parties
Net contact hours 5.2 Negotiation assignment – presentment, endorsement, liability of parties
8 hours 5.3 Payment in due course, special rules of evidence, material alteration, noting
and protest
5.4 Paying banker and collecting banker
5.5 Bills in sets
5.6 Penal provisions
5.7 Banker’s book - Evidence Act
Learning Unit Six 6. Ancillary services and e- banking
Net contact hours 5.1 Remittances - general, DD, MT, TT, traveler’s cheques, bank orders, credit
8 hours card, debit/smart cards, safe deposit vaults, gift cheques, stock invest
5.2 E-banking - definition – internet banking, mobile banking, ATM banking,
computerized banking
5.3 E-banking services – retail services, wholesale services,
5.4 E-cheque, authentication
5.5 Cyber evidence - banking ombudsman?
Total Contact 48 Hours ( excluding assessment, assignment and final examinations)
Hours
Basic Text Ross Cranston, Principles of Banking Law, Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002)
Bank and Financial Institutions Act, 2063
Banking Offence and Punishment Act, 2064
Nepal Rastra Bank Act 2058
Anti Money Laundering Act 2064
Nepal Rastra Bank Directives
Evaluation In-semester evaluation 50 %
Scheme End-semester evaluation 50 %
Total 100 %

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