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

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8. Section 3 (4) makes the offence of exporting counter- feit current coin a felony instead of a misdemeanor. seems desirable in view of the raising of the maximum penalty to fourteen years imprisonment.

9. Section 3 (5) adds a section to Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 on the lines of section 4 of the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, as amended by the Act of 1935.

10. Section 4 makes certain additions to Ordinance No. 5 of 1875 so as to make it clear that references in that Ordin- ance to the Extradition Act, 1870, cover the crimes and offences added to the First Schedule to that Act by subsequent Acts including the Act of 1935.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

February, 1936.

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