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[No. 4: 8.2.36.-2.]

A BILL

INTITULED

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).

2. Section 15 of the Forgery Ordinance, 1922, as New amended by section 7 of the Forgery Amendment Ordinance, sub-section 1924, is further amended by the addition of the following Ordinance new sub-section at the end thereof :-

(3) added to

No. 11 of 1922, s. 15 as amended

(3) Where any forged bank note or currency note, or by Ordin-

No. 11 of

any machinery, implement, utensil or material used or 1924, s. 7.

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.

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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 Majesty's coin) as well as the heading immediately above 25 & 26 section 15, are hereby repealed.

(2) In order that the provisions of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, shall apply in relation to foreign coin as they apply in relation to His Majesty's coin the provisions of that Ordinance are amended as follows:-

(a) in section 2---

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and "of the King's" wherever they occur, that is to say in the second, third, fifth, twelfth and sixteenth lines are repealed;

Geo. 5, c. 25, s. 3

(1).

25 & 26

Geo, 5, c. 25, s. 3

(1) and

Schedule Part I.