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Money, currency note or bank note; how described
Cap. 96, s. 75 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) In every indictment in which it is necessary to make any averment as to any money or any note of the Central Bank of Belize,
government currency note or of any other bank, it shall be sufficient to describe such money or bank or currency note simply as money without specifying any particular coin or bank or currency note, and such allegation, so far as regards the description of the property,
shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin or of any bank or currency note, although the particular species of coin of which such amount was composed, or the particular nature of the bank or currency note shall not be proved.
(2) An allegation in an indictment that money, currency notes or bank notes have been stolen or obtained by deception can, so far as regards the description of the property, be sustained by proof that the offender stole or obtained any piece of coin or any currency note or bank note or any portion of the value thereof, although such piece of coin or such currency note or bank note may have been delivered to him in order that some part of the value thereof should be returned to any person and such part has been returned accordingly.
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Amended by: 33 of 1980
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