Currency Act, 1927

Regulations by the Commission in relation to Shareholding Banks.

43.—(1) The Commission may make such regulations as it thinks proper in regard to—

(a) the exercise by Shareholding Banks of their rights and powers under this Act in respect of legal tender notes and consolidated bank notes, and

(b) the putting into and withdrawal from circulation of legal tender notes and consolidated bank notes by Shareholding Banks, and the retention by Shareholding Banks of such notes in their vaults and tills, and

(c) the performance generally by Shareholding Banks of their functions in relation to the circulation of currency, and

(d) the returns to be made periodically by Shareholding Banks to the Commission in relation to legal tender notes, consolidated bank notes, coins, and other forms of currency.

(2) It shall be the duty of every Shareholding Bank to observe and conform to the regulations made by the Commission under this section and any contravention (whether of commission or omission) by a Shareholding Bank of any such regulation shall be a ground for removing such Bank from being a Shareholding Bank.