Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act 1935
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1935 c. 25 |
| Year | 1935 |
Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935
(25 & 26 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 25.
An Act to enable effect to be given to an International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, signed on behalf of His Majesty at Geneva on the twentieth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, to apply to foreign coin certain enactments relating to British coin, and to assimilate the penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin.
[10th July 1935]
W HEREAS a Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, was signed on behalf of His Majesty at Geneva on the twentieth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine:
And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the said Convention and to apply to foreign coin certain enactments relating to British coin, and to assimilate the penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Forgery of currency notes issued abroad.
(1) Currency notes issued by or on behalf of the Government of any country outside the United Kingdom shall be deemed to be bank notes within the meaning of the Forgery Act, 1913 , and this Act.
(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 Disposal of forget bank notes and plant used for forging bank notes.
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 Application of enactments to foreign coin and assimilation of penalties for importing and exporting counterfeit coin.
(1) Sections eighteen to twenty-three of the Coinage Offences Act, 1861 , (which contain provisions as to foreign coin differing from the corresponding provisions as to His Majesty's coin) are hereby repealed, and the provisions of that Act shall apply in relation to foreign coin as they apply in relation to His Majesty's coin, and accordingly the provisions of that Act specified in the first column of Part I of the Schedule to this Act shall be amended in the manner shown in the second column of that Part of that Schedule.
(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 this Act shall be amended in the manner shown in the second column of that Part of that Schedule.
4 Extradition for attempts to commit offences in connection with counterfeit currency.
4. The Extradition Act, 1870, shall be construed as if there were included in the list of crimes in the First...
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