Coinage Act, 1926

Application of certain enactments.

8.—(1) The Coinage Offences Act, 1861 shall apply to coins issued under this Act, and for the purposes of such application the references in section 1 of that Act to coin or any particular class of coin lawfully current by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions shall be construed as including references to coins or that particular class of coins lawfully current in Saorstát Eireann by virtue of this Act, and the references in that section to silver coin shall be construed as including nickel coin.

(2) Section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 shall be construed and have effect as if the following articles were added to the Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards in that section, that is to say, counterfeits of coins issued under this Act and any coins or money purporting to be coins issued under this Act but not being of the standard weight or not being of the standard fineness prescribed by this Act.

(3) Section 2 of the Revenue Act, 1889 shall apply to imitations of coins issued under this Act, and for the purpose of such application the reference in sub-section (4) of that section to coins lawfully current by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions shall be construed as including a reference to coins lawfully current in Saorstát Eireann by virtue of this Act.