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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80646</law_id><section_number>8.4A-403</section_number><catch_line>Payment by sender to receiving bank</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.4A-105</reference><reference>8.4A-209</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.4A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Funds Transfers</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Payment</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> Payment of the sender&#x2019;s obligation under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Obligation of sender to pay receiving bank" href="/8.4A-402/">8.4A-402</a> to pay the receiving bank occurs as follows: <a id="paragraph-289027" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> If the sender is a bank, payment occurs when the receiving bank receives final <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> of the obligation through a Federal Reserve Bank or through a funds-transfer system. <a id="paragraph-289028" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#a1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> If the sender is a bank and the sender (i) credited an account of the receiving bank with the sender, or (ii) caused an account of the receiving bank in another bank to be credited, payment occurs when the credit is withdrawn or, if not withdrawn, at midnight of the day on which the credit is withdrawable and the receiving bank learns of that <span class="dictionary">fact</span>. <a id="paragraph-289029" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#a2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="a3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If the receiving bank debits an account of the sender with the receiving bank, payment occurs when the debit is made to the extent the debit is covered by a withdrawable credit balance in the account. <a id="paragraph-289030" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#a3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> If the sender and receiving bank are members of a funds-transfer system that nets obligations multilaterally among participants, the receiving bank receives final <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> when <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> is complete in accordance with the rules of the system. The obligation of the sender to pay the amount of a payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> transmitted through the funds-transfer system may be satisfied, to the extent permitted by the rules of the system, by setting off and applying against the sender&#x2019;s obligation the right of the sender to receive payment from the receiving bank of the amount of any other payment <span class="dictionary">order</span> transmitted to the sender by the receiving bank through the funds-transfer system. The aggregate balance of obligations owed by each sender to each receiving bank in the funds-transfer system may be satisfied, to the extent permitted by the rules of the system, by setting off and applying against that balance the aggregate balance of obligations owed to the sender by other members of the system. The aggregate balance is determined after the right of setoff stated in the second sentence of this subsection has been exercised. <a id="paragraph-289031" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> If two banks transmit payment <span class="dictionary">orders</span> to each other under an agreement that <span class="dictionary">settlement</span> of the obligations of each bank to the other under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Obligation of sender to pay receiving bank" href="/8.4A-402/">8.4A-402</a> will be made at the end of the day or other period, the total amount owed with respect to all <span class="dictionary">orders</span> transmitted by one bank shall be set off against the total amount owed with respect to all <span class="dictionary">orders</span> transmitted by the other bank. To the extent of the setoff, each bank has made payment to the other. <a id="paragraph-289032" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> In a case not covered by subsection (a) of this section, the time when payment of the sender&#x2019;s obligation under subsection (b) or (c) of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Obligation of sender to pay receiving bank" href="/8.4A-402/">8.4A-402</a> occurs is governed by applicable principles of <span class="dictionary">law</span> that determine when an obligation is satisfied. <a id="paragraph-289033" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.4A-403/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1990, c. 9.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
