A.D. 1935.
Disposal of forged bank
notes and plant used for forging bank notes.
Application of enact-
ments to foreign coin and
[CH. 25.]
Counterfeit Currency [25 & 26 GEO. 5.] (Convention) Act, 1935.
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(2) In
this section the expression currency notes" includes any notes (by whatever name called) which are legal tender in the country in which they are issued.
2. Where any forged bank note, or any machinery, implement, utensil or material used or intended to be used for the forgery of a bank note, is lawfully seized under a warrant granted in pursuance of subsection (1) of section sixteen of the Forgery Act, 1913, or otherwise, the bank note, machinery, implement, utensil or material, as the case may be, shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of that section, be delivered up to the Secretary of State, or to any person authorised by him for the purpose, by order of the court before which the offender is tried or, if there is no trial, by order of a justice of the peace.
3.--(1) Sections eighteen to twenty-three of the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, (which contain provisions as to foreign coin differing from the corresponding pro- visions as to His Majesty's coin) are hereby repealed, and assimilation the provisions of that Act shall apply in relation to of penalties foreign coin as they apply in relation to His Majesty's for import coin, and accordingly the provisions of that Act specified ing and
in the first column of Part I of the Schedule to this exporting
Act shall be amended in the manner shown in the counterfeit coin.
second column of that Part of that Schedule.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99.
46 & 47 Vict. c. 45.
52 & 53 Vict.
c. 42.
(2) There shall be substituted for the penalties provided in section seven and section eight of the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, (which respectively relate to the importation and exportation of counterfeit coin) a penalty of penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years.
(3) The Counterfeit Medal Act, 1883, shall apply in relation to foreign coin as it applies in relation to His Majesty's coin; and accordingly the provisions of that Act set out in the first column of Part II of the Schedule to this Act shall be amended in the manner shown in the second column of that Part of that Schedule.
(4) Section two of the Revenue Act, 1889, (which prohibits the importation of imitation coin) shall apply to imitation foreign coin as it applies to imitation British coin; and accordingly the provisions of that section set out in the first column of Part III of the Schedule to
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