Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (CURRENCY) ACT 1981 - SECT 7

    A person shall not:

  (a)   utter counterfeit money, knowing it to be counterfeit money; or

  (b)   utter a counterfeit prescribed security, knowing it to be a counterfeit prescribed security.

Penalty:

  (a)   in the case of a person, not being a body corporate--imprisonment for 12 years; or

  (b)   in the case of a person, being a body corporate-- 600 penalty units .