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CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981 - SECT 18

Possessing defaced coins or paper money

    A person shall not have in his or her possession for sale 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 .


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