Criminal Code Act

Section 156

Any person who defaces any current coin by stamping thereon any name or word whether the weight of the coin is or is not thereby diminished, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year.

A person found committing the offence may be arrested without warrant.

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