CO129-546-4 Control of the printing of bank-notes 12-12-1933 - 15-3-1934 — Page 11

Bank note in this Act includes a note of any person.

or boay corporate carrying on tbe business of banking

in any part of the world; and the provisions of the

Act could therefore be used to deal with casea of

suspected forgery of foreign bank notes.

The question

of what constitutes "lawful authority or excuse" in

such a case is not easy to answer in precise terms,

but it is for the person charged to establish his

authority or excuse, and in order to succeed on this

ground he would prima facie have to produce evidence

of a bona fide contract with the foreign bank in

question.

The definition of bank notes in the Act

would not appear to cover currency notes issued by a

foreign Government, but it is proposed to remedy this

deficiency in the legislation which will require to be

introduced to give effect to the International Convention

for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency signed at

Geneva on the 20th April 1929.

I am,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

APWaterfield