1950_COINAGE_OFFENCES_ORDINANCE — Page 7

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Coinage Offences.

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off, may not be in a fit state to be uttered or the counterfeit- ing thereof may not be finished or perfected.

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issue search

warrant for coin or

counterfeit

instrument

for coining.

19. (1) Whenever it appears to any justice of the Power to peace, upon the oath of any person, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any person has been concerned in counterfeiting current gold, silver, or copper coin or has in his custody or possession or under his control, in any building, vessel, or place, any such false or counterfeit coin, or any instrument, tool, or engine whatsoever adapted and intended for the making or counterfeiting of any such coin, or any other machine used or intended to be used for making or counterfeiting any such coin, such justice of the peace may, by his warrant directed to any police officer, empower such officer, by day or by night—

(a) to enter, and, if necessary, to break into, such building, vessel, or place, and therein to search for and seize any such false or counterfeit coin and such instrument, tool, or engine, and any such machine as aforesaid; and

(b) to arrest any person, being in such building, vessel, or place, who appears to have such coin, instrument, tool, engine, or machine in his custody or possession or under his control, and to bring any such person before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.

(2) All such false and counterfeit coin, and all instruments, tools, and engines adapted and intended for the making or counterfeiting of coin, and all such machines as aforesaid shall, after they have been so seized, be carried before a magistrate, who shall have power, whether any person is charged with or convicted of any offence or not, to order the forfeiture of such coin, instruments, tools, engines, and machines as aforesaid and the delivery of the same either to the Accountant General or to any person authorized by him in writing to receive the same.

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20. It shall be lawful for any person whomsoever to apprehend any person who may be found committing any indictable offence against this Ordinance, and to convey. or deliver him to some police officer, in order to his being conveyed as soon as reasonably may be before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.

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Power to offenders. c. 99, s. 81.

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24 & 25 Vict.

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