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CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981

Table of Provisions

  • 1 Short title.  
  • 2 Commencement  
  • 3 Interpretation  
  • 4 Extension of Act to Territories  
  • 5 Extra-territorial operation of Act  
  • 6 Making counterfeit money or counterfeit securities  
  • 7 Uttering counterfeit money or counterfeit securities  
  • 8 Buying or selling counterfeit money or counterfeit securities  
  • 9 Possessing counterfeit money or counterfeit securities  
  • 10 Import and export of counterfeit money or counterfeit securities  
  • 11 Instruments and material used for counterfeiting  
  • 12 Persons shall not import or export instruments for counterfeiting, &c.  
  • 13 Conveying instruments or materials from premises  
  • 14 Information with respect to counterfeit money or counterfeit securities  
  • 15 Possessing filings, clippings, &c.  
  • 16 Defacing or destroying current coins or current paper money  
  • 17 Selling defaced coins or paper money  
  • 18 Possessing defaced coins or paper money  
  • 19 Persons not to design, make, print or distribute material of certain kinds  
  • 20 Import and export of certain material forbidden  
  • 21 Machines, &c., operated by coins or paper money  
  • 22 Interpretation  
  • 23 Liability to prosecution  
  • 24 Prosecution of offences against Act  
  • 25 Jurisdiction of courts  
  • 26 Section 38 of Judiciary Act  
  • 27 Evidence of examiners of counterfeit foreign money or counterfeit foreign securities  
  • 28 Counterfeit money to be rendered incapable of use  
  • 29 Forfeiture and seizure  
  • 30 Regulations  
  • 31 Principal Act  
  • 32 Repeal of Part IV of Principal Act  
  • 33 Tampering with notes or securities  
  • 34 Principal Act  
  • 35 Forging or uttering stock certificates, &c.  
  • 36 Forfeiture of forged documents  
  • 37 Principal Act  
  • 38 Repeal of heading to Division 1 of Part V of Principal Act  
  • 39 Interpretation  
  • 40 Repeal of Division 2 of Part V of Principal Act  
  • 41 Principal Act  
  • 42 Repeal of sections 13, 13A, 13B and 14 of Principal Act  

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