Section 4

Any person who, in contravention of any such order, imports or exports or attempts to import or export any coin in such order specified to the amount of $5 in nominal value or upwards in the case of copper or bronze coin, or of $25 in nominal value or upwards in the case of silver coin, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.

Any coin so imported or exported or attempted to be imported or exported in contravention of any such order shall be forfeited.

In any case in which it has been proved, to the satisfaction of a court, that any coin has been exported in contravention of any such order, the court may impose, in addition to the fine authorised by this section, a further penalty not exceeding the amount or value of the coin so found to have been exported.

This section shall not apply to any coin imported or exported with the permission in writing under the hand of the Minister or of any officer appointed in that behalf by the President; such permission shall specify the terms on which such coin may be imported or exported, as the case may be.

Any person importing or exporting any coin in contravention of the terms of such permission shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000, and any coin so imported or exported shall be forfeited. Subsection (3) shall apply in the case of any coin exported in contravention of the terms of any such permission.

Any person who, in contravention of any such order, circulates or attempts to circulate any coin in such order specified shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50, and the coin shall be forfeited.

For the purposes of this section, a person is not deemed to circulate any coin who gives such coin to a banker or money-changer in exchange for other coins or for notes.