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The Laws of Fiji
Last Updated: 21 March 2018

[CR 170] Defacing and uttering defaced coin170 

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(1) A person commits a summary offence if he or she defaces any current coin, whether the coin is or is not thereby diminished or lightened.

Penalty — Imprisonment for one year.

(2) A tender of payment in money made in any coin which has been defaced is not legal tender.
(3) A person commits a summary offence if he or she tenders, utters or presents in any commercial transaction any coin which has been defaced.

Penalty — A fine of $500.

[subs (3) am Act 31 of 2016 s 193, effective 1 December 2016]

(4) Proceedings under this subsection require the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.