Mint employee liability for altering coin weight or composition creates criminal offence with imprisonment and fine. Criminal liability attaches to a person employed in a lawfully established mint who, by commission or omission, acts with the intention of causing any coin issued from that mint to differ in weight or composition from that fixed by law; the offence carries imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years and liability to fine.
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Mint employee liability for altering coin weight or composition creates criminal offence with imprisonment and fine.
Criminal liability attaches to a person employed in a lawfully established mint who, by commission or omission, acts with the intention of causing any coin issued from that mint to differ in weight or composition from that fixed by law; the offence carries imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years and liability to fine.
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