[25 & 26 GEO. 5.] Counterfeit Currency
(Convention) Act, 1935.
DIELL
DROIT
[CH. 25.]
CHAPTER 25.
An Act to enable effect to be given to an Inter- A.D. 1935.
national Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, signed on behalf of His Majesty at Geneva on the twentieth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, to apply to foreign coin certain enactments relating to British coin, and to assimilate the penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin.
[10th July 1935.]
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WHEREAS a Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, was signed on behalf of His Majesty at Geneva on the twentieth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine :
And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the said Convention and to apply to foreign coin certain enactments relating to British coin, and to assimilate the penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1.—(1) Currency notes issued by or on behalf of Forgery of the Government of any country outside the United currency Kingdom shall be deemed to be bank notes within the notes issued meaning of the Forgery Act, 1913, and this Act.
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1
abroad.
3 & 4 Geo.5.
C.
27.