390
Draft Bill.
No. S. 86.-The following Bill is published for general information:-
A BILL
[No. 4:- 8.2.36.-2.]
Short title.
25 & 26
Geo. 5, c. 25,
B. 6 (1).
New
sub-section (3) added to Ordinance No. 11 of 1922, s. 15 as amended by Ordin- No. 11 of 1924, s. 7.
25 & 26 Geo. 5,
c. 25, s. 2.
Amendments
No. 7 of 1865.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to enable effect to be given to an International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, signed on behalf of His late Majesty at Geneva on the 20th day of April, 1929, to apply. to foreign coin certain enactments relating to British Coin, to assimilate the penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin and to amend certain enactments relat- ing to forgery, coinage and extradition.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936.
2. Section 15 of the Forgery Ordinance, 1922, as amended by section 7 of the Forgery Amendment Ordinance, 1924, is further amended by the addition of the following new sub-section at the end thereof:-
(3) Where any forged bank note or currency note, or any machinery, implement, utensil or material used or intended to be used for the forgery of a bank note or currency note, is lawfully seized under a warrant granted in pursuance of sub-section (1), or otherwise, the bank note, currency note, implement, utensil or material, as the case may be, shall, notwithstanding anything in sub-section (2), be deliver- ed up to the Treasurer, or to any person authorised by him for the purpose, by order of the court or magistrate before which the offender is tried or, if there be no trial, by order of a magistrate.
3.-(1) Sections 15 to 20 of the Coinage Offences to Ordinance Ordinance, 1865, (which contain provisions as to foreign coin differing from the corresponding provisions as to His Majesty's coin) as well as the heading immediately above section 15, are hereby repealed.
25 & 26
Gen. 5,
c. 25, s. 3 (1).
25 & 26 Geo. 5,
c. 25, s. 3
(1) and
Schedule Part I.
(2) In order that the provisions of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, shall apply in relation to foreign coin as they apply in relation to His Majesty's coin the provisions of that Ordinance are amended as follows:-
(a) in section 2-
(i) the words "the King's and "of the King's" wherever they occur, that is to say in the second, third, fifth, twelfth and sixteenth lines are repealed;