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PART 5
Counterfeiting
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Interpretation (Part 5).
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32.—(1) In this Part—
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“currency note” and “coin” mean, respectively, a currency note and coin lawfully issued or customarily used as money in the State or in any other state or a territorial unit within it and include a note denominated in euro and a coin denominated in euro or in cent and also any note or coin which has not been lawfully issued but which would, on being so issued, be a currency note or coin within the above meaning; and
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“lawfully issued” means issued—
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(a) by or under the authority of the European Central Bank,
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(b) by the Central Bank of Ireland or the Minister for Finance, or
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(c) by a body in a state (other than the State) or a territorial unit within it which is authorised under the law of that state or territorial unit to issue currency notes or coins.
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(2) For the purposes of this Part, a thing is a counterfeit of a currency note or coin—
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(a) if it is not a currency note or coin but resembles a currency note or coin (whether on one side only or on both) to such an extent that it is reasonably capable of passing for a currency note or coin of that description, or
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(b) if it is a currency note or coin which has been so altered that it is reasonably capable of passing for a note or coin of some other description.
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(3) For the purposes of this Part—
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(a) a thing consisting of or containing a representation of one side only of a currency note, with or without the addition of other material, is capable of being a counterfeit of such a currency note, and
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(b) a thing consisting—
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(i) of parts of two or more currency notes, or
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(ii) of parts of a currency note, or of parts of two or more currency notes, with the addition of other material,
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is capable of being a counterfeit of a currency note.
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