TREASURY BILLS.
No. 93 of 1940.
An Act to amend the Treasury Bills Act 1914-1915.
[Assented to 17th December, 1940.]
[Date of commencement, 14th January, 1941.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Treasury Bills Act 1940.
(2.) The Treasury Bills Act 1914-1915, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Treasury Bills Act 1914-1940.
2. After section thirteen of the Treasury Bills Act 1914-1915 the following sections are inserted:—
Copying of Treasury Bills forbidden.
“13a.—(1.) A person shall not, without the authority of the Treasurer (proof whereof shall lie upon him) make or have in his possession—
(a) any copy of a Treasury Bill; or
(b) any writing, engraving, photograph or print resembling a Treasury Bill or apparently intended to be or pass for a copy of a Treasury Bill.
Penalty: One hundred pounds, or imprisonment for one year, or both.
“(2.) This section shall not affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against for any higher offence but a person so proceeded against shall not be punished twice in respect of the same offence.
“(3.) In this section ‘copy of a Treasury Bill’ includes any representation or negative of a Treasury Bill in any size or on any scale, and includes a copy of a form of a Treasury Bill in any size or on any scale.
Treasury Bills not to be used as advertisements, &c
“13b. A person shall not—
(a) make on, or attach to, any Treasury Bill, any advertisement;
(b) design, make, issue or circulate any advertisement in the form of or apparently intended to resemble a Treasury Bill; or
(c) without lawful authority (proof whereof shall lie upon him) deface or disfigure any Treasury Bill by writing, printing, stamping or drawing anything thereon.
Penalty: Twenty pounds.”.