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Imitation of currency notes
Cap. 101, s. 194 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) If any person makes or causes to be made or uses for any purpose whatever or utters any document purporting to be or in any way resembling or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive any currency note or any part thereof he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each such document to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and it shall 133 be lawful for the court to order the document in respect of which the offence was committed and any copies of that document and any plates, blocks, dies or other instrument used for or capable of being used for printing or reproducing any such document,
which are in the possession of such offender, to be destroyed.
(2) If any person whose name appears on any document the making of which is an offence under this section refuses to disclose to a police officer the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or made he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
(3) Where the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under this Title, or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document, it shall be prima facie evidence that that person caused the document to be made.
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