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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O. 882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. LONDON!

Publica-

Lion of Order.

Penalty for importing or export ing coin in contraven. tion of Order

prohibited

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5. Every such Order shall be published in the "Gazette" and shall not come into force until so published.

6. (1) If any person in contravention of any such Order import or export or attempt to import or export any coin in such Order specified to the amount of five dollars in nominal value or upwards in the case of copper or bronze coin or of twenty-five dollars in nominal value or upwards in the case of silver coin he shall be liable on conviction before a Bench Court to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and any coin so imported or exported or attempted to be imported or exported in contravention of any such Order shall be forfeited.

(2) In any case in which it has been proved to the satisfaction of a Court that coin has been exported in contravention of any such Order as aforesaid it may impose in addition to the fine authorised by this section a further penalty not exceed- ing the amount or value of the coin so found to have been exported.

(3) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any coin imported or exported under a licence in writing under the hand of the Colonial Secretary or of Every such licence shall any officer appointed in that behalf by the Governor. specify the terms on which such coin may be imported or exported as the case may be.

(4)—Any person importing or exporting coin under the provisions of any such licence shall be bound to comply with the terms in such licence specified and any person importing or exporting coin in contravention of the terms of such licence Shall be liable on conviction before a Bench Court to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and any coin imported or exported in contravention of the term of such licence shall be forfeited. The provision contained in sub-section (2) of this section shall apply in the case of any coin exported in contravention of the terms of any such licence.

Penalty for

(5)-If any person shall in contravention of any such Order circulate or circulating attempt to circulate any coin in such Order specified he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and the coin shall be forfeited. (6). For the purposes of this section a person is not deemed to circulate coin who gives such ooín to a banker or money-changer in exchange for other coins or

coin.

Forfeiture of pro-

hibited coin.

for notes.

(7)—In this section the expression "person "includes any Company or Asso- ciation or body of persons whether incorporated or not.

7. Any coin the circulation of which in the Colony is for the time being pro- hibited by any such Order as aforesaid found within the Colony otherwise than in the possession of a banker or money-changer after the expiration of thirty days from the publication in the "Gazette of such Order may if it amounts to the nominal value of five dollars or upwards in the case of copper or bronze coin or twenty-five dollars or upwards in the case of silver coin be forfeited and may be seized without warrant by any Police Officer and detained pending adjudication.

A Justice of the Peace if satisfied by sworn information in writing that there is good cause to believe that any coin which has been imported or is in the act of being imported or exported in contravention of any such Order as aforesaid is likely to be found in any place to the nominal value of fifty dollars or upwards may by warrant under his hand direct any public officer named or specified therein to enter such place and search the same and seize all coin or coins found therein or exported the import or export of which is for the time being prohibited as aforesaid and

detain the same pending adjudication.

Search under

warrant of

justice of

the peace for coin imported

In contra-

vention of

Order.

Police may

8.

9. Any person found offending against the provisions of this Ordinance may

arrest be arrested by any Police Officer without warrant.

without

warrant.

Forfeiture

of coin by

whom

declared.

Ord. xv. of 1876.

10. Forfeitures of coin may be declared under this Ordinance

(1) by the Supreme Court upon information filed by His Majesty's Attorney-

General under "The Crown Suits Ordinance, 1876";

(2) by the convicting Court in all cases where a person is convicted of an offence against the provisions of this Ordinance in respect of such

coin;

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(3) by a Police Court where no person is convicted and the nominal value of

the coin does not exceed five hundred dollars.

12. "The Foreign Coin Prohibition Ordinance No. 11 of 1891 repealed.

Passed this 25th day of September, 1903.

11. The Court may direct any fine or portion of a fine imposed and levied under Fine paid this Ordinance to be paid to the informer.

is hereby Repeal.

to

informer.

E. G. BROADRICK,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

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Enclosure 2 in No. 47.

REPORT On 'An Ordinance to regulate the Import and Export of Coin into and from the Colony," being Ordinance No. XXIV. of 1903.

1. This Ordinance was passed to enable the Government to carry out the suggestions of the Currency Commission.

2. With the new provisions necessary for that purpose are embodied those of the "Foreign Coins Prohibition Ordinance, 1891," which is repealed.

3. The principal additions made to that Ordinance are as follows:-

Section 3, Sub-sections (1), (2), and (4) empower the Governor in Council, with the approval of a Secretary of State, to prohibit the importation of any coin whether legal tender or not, and the exportation of any coin which is legal tender in the Colony, and also to exempt any particular country or State from the operation of any such order, the latter power making it possible to put the States of the Malay Peninsula on a footing different from that of other foreign countries in the matter of currency.

Section 6 amplifies the penal provisions of the law to meet the altered circumstances.

4. I am of opinion that this is an Ordinance which may properly receive the Royal Assent.

W. R. COLLYER,

Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore,

40731

SIR,

9th October, 1903.

No. 48.

COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.

[Answered by No. 51.]

Attorney-General.

Downing Street, 21st November, 1908. WITH reference to previous correspondence as to the Straits Settlements currency, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, copies of an Ordinance recently pasted by the Legislature of the Colony, entitled "The Coin Import and Export Ordinance, 1903," and of three Orders in Council issued by the Governor under that Ordinance, and two Proclamations* issued under the Order of His Majesty in Council of the 25th of June last.

Mr. Lyttelton has approved the Orders of the Governor in Council, but with regard to the Ordinance he proposes to address to the Governor the despatcht of which a draft is enclosed, and I am to enquire whether their Lordships concur in the terms of the draft.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCIAS.

• Enclosures in No. 45.

† Bee No. 52.

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