New Zealand Legislation: Acts

30 Reproduction or imitation of currency

• (1) No person shall, without the prior consent of the Bank,—

  • (a) make, design, engrave, print, or reproduce; or

  • (b) use, issue, or publish—

  any article or thing resembling a bank note or coin or so nearly resembling or having such a likeness to a bank note or coin as to be likely to be confused with or mistaken for it.

  (2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence against this Act.

  (3) Where a person is convicted of an offence against subsection (2), the court may order—

  • (a) the article or thing:

  • (b) any copy of it:

  • (c) any plates, blocks, dies, and other instruments used or capable of being used for printing or reproducing it—

  in the possession of that person to be destroyed.

  Compare: 1964 No 134 s 24(2); 1973 No 16 s 6