Criminal Law Additions and Alterations
| Published date | 01 January 1937 |
| Date | 01 January 1937 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002201833700100108 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Criminal
Law
Additions
and
Alterations
COINAGE OFFENCES ACT, 1936
THIS
is an act consolidating the provisions of the Coinage
Offences Acts, 1861 and 1935, and of the Counterfeit
Medal Act, 1883, and came into operation on rst August, 1936.
The
new Act of Parliament leaves the law substantially as it was
before,
but
the matter of the three earlier Acts has been con-
siderably compressed by redrafting and it now occupies
comparatively few pages.
The
provisions regarding foreign coin which appeared in
the 1861 Act and which were brought into line with those
relating to the King's coin by the Counterfeit Currency
(Convention) Act, 1935 (cited above as the Coinage Offences
Act, 1935), have been incorporated, and the penalties for
offences respecting current coin are the same whether it is the
King's or not.
In
addition to the sections imposing penalties for making,
uttering, and possessing counterfeit coin and for possessing
tools or moulds for making counterfeit coin, there are others
dealing with matters which are perhaps less familiar.
Every person who defaces any current coin by stamping
thereon any names or words shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and every person who utters such a coin shall be liable to a fine;
but
in this latter case no proceedings shall be instituted without
the consent of the Attorney-General-section 4.
Buying or selling counterfeit coin for lower value than its
denomination is a felony-section 6.
Knowingly without lawful authority conveying coining
tools, coin, or bullion out of the Mint is a felony-section
10.
Any person found committing an offence against this Act
other than an offence against section 8 (which deals with
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