(a) This article applies to letters of credit and to certain rights and obligations arising out of transactions involving letters of credit.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:5-103

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Applicant: means a person at whose request or for whose account a letter of credit is issued. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:5-102
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Beneficiary: means a person who under the terms of a letter of credit is entitled to have its complying presentation honored. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:5-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Issuer: means a bank or other person that issues a letter of credit, but does not include an individual who makes an engagement for personal, family, or household purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:5-102
  • Letter of credit: means a definite undertaking that satisfies the requirements of § 490:5-104 by an issuer to a beneficiary at the request or for the account of an applicant or, in the case of a financial institution, to itself or for its own account, to honor a documentary presentation by payment or delivery of an item of value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:5-102
  • Nominated person: means a person whom the issuer (i) designates or authorizes to pay, accept, negotiate, or otherwise give value under a letter of credit, and (ii) undertakes by agreement or custom and practice to reimburse. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 490:5-102
(b) The statement of a rule in this article does not by itself require, imply, or negate application of the same or a different rule to a situation not provided for, or to a person not specified, in this article.
(c) With the exception of this subsection, subsections (a) and (d), sections 490:5-102(a), amendment, cancellation, and duration” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2019″ statecd=”HI”>490:5-106(d), and 490:5-114(d), the effect of this article may be varied by agreement or by a provision stated or incorporated by reference in an undertaking, except to the extent prohibited in sections 490:1-302 and issuer, applicant, and nominated person” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2019″ statecd=”HI”>490:5-117(d). A term in an agreement or undertaking generally excusing liability or generally limiting remedies for failure to perform obligations is not sufficient to vary obligations prescribed by this article.
(d) Rights and obligations of an issuer to a beneficiary or a nominated person under a letter of credit are independent of the existence, performance, or nonperformance of a contract or arrangement out of which the letter of credit arises or which underlies it, including contracts or arrangements between the issuer and the applicant and between the applicant and the beneficiary.

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