The main disadvantages of a cheque system are as follows:
- A cheque may not be accepted if the drawer is not regarded as fully credit worthy.
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- A cheque may be tampered.
- For black money transaction, cheque is useless.
- The bank in some cases may not be willing to honour a cheque.
- Writing the cheque may be careless.