CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936 — Page 27

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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 4:- 8.2.36.-2.]

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 Short title. Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936.

25 & 26

Geo. 5, c. 25,

s. 6 (1).

New

sub-section

(3) added to

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 ordinance new sub-section at the end thereof :-

No. 11 of 1922, s. 15 as amended

1924, s. 7.

(3) Where any forged bank note or currency note, or by Ordin any machinery, implement, utensil or material used or No. 11 of intended to be used for the forgery of a bank note or currency 25 & 26 note, is lawfully seized under a warrant granted in pursuance Geo. 5, of sub-section (1), or otherwise, the bank note, currency c. 25, s. 2. 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.

No. 7 of

3.-(1) Sections 15 to 20 of the Coinage Offences Amendments Ordinance, 1865, (which contain provisions as to foreign to Ordinance coin differing from the corresponding provisions as to His 1865. Majesty's coin) as well as the heading immediately above 25 & 26 section 15, are hereby repealed.

Geo. 5, c. 25, s. 3 (1).

c. 25, s. 3

(2) In order that the provisions of the Coinage Offences 25 & 26 Ordinance, 1865, shall apply in relation to foreign coin as Geo. 5, they apply in relation to His Majesty's coin the provisions of (1) and that Ordinance are amended as follows:

(a) in section 2-

(i) the words "the Kings " and "of the King's " wherever they occur, that is to say in the second, third, fifth, twelfth and sixteenth lines are repealed;

Schedule Part I.

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