CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981 - SECT 17 Selling defaced coins or paper money

CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981 - SECT 17

    A person shall not sell or offer to sell a coin or paper money that is lawfully current in Australia and that has been defaced, disfigured or mutilated, knowing it to have been defaced, disfigured or mutilated.

Penalty:

  (a)   in the case of a person, not being a body corporate-- imprisonment for 2 years or 50 penalty units , or both; or

  (b)   in the case of a person, being a body corporate-- 100 penalty units .