§ 4 Clause 14, page 8, line 8, after first ("or") insert ("of").
1440Viscount Colville of CulrossMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 4.
This amendment looks very small indeed; but, as a matter of fact, it is a point of substance. It occurs in Part 2 of the Bill where we go on to the matter of counterfeiting. In Clause 14(2) it is said that it is an offence for a person to make a counterfeit of a currency note or a protected coin without lawful authority or excuse. What is intended is to make it an offence to make a counterfeit of a currency note or a counterfeit of a protected coin. If you do not put in the word "of" it will read that it is an offence to make the protected coin. That is not a matter for counterfeiting at all and it should not be thus phrased. If you put in the word "of" it is the making of the counterfeit of a protected coin, that becomes an offence. This little word is very necessary and I beg to move.
§ Moved, That the House doth agree with the Commons in the said amendment.—(Viscount Colville of Culross.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.