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Last Updated: 21 March 2018
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PENAL CODE AND MAKE COMPREHENSIVE PROVISION IN RELATION TO THE ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND TO PRESCRIBE A RANGE OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES, AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES
[CR 164] Counterfeiting164
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- (a)coin resembling any current coin; or
- (b)any currency note used in Fiji or any other country.
Penalty—
- (a)in a case of any currency note, or where the coin resembles a current gold or silver coin, to imprisonment for life; and
- (b)in a case where the coin resembles a current copper coin, to imprisonment for 7 years.
(2) The offence of falsely making or counterfeiting a currency note or a coin is deemed to be complete although—
- (a)the currency note or coin made or counterfeited is not in a fit state to be uttered; or
- (b)the making or counterfeiting of it has not been finished or perfected.