Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00182:section:30:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00182
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 30 (pt 3/12)
Character Range: 44397–47360

the Government or bank of issue whose currency is in question, with the exception of exhibits whose preservation as a matter of record is required by the law of the country where the prosecution took place, and any specimens whose transmission to the Central Office mentioned in Article 12 may be deemed advisable. In any event, all such articles should be rendered incapable of use.

Article 12
In every country, within the framework of its domestic law, investigations on the subject of counterfeiting should be organised by a central office.
This central office should be in close contact:
     (a) With the institutions issuing currency;
     (b) With the police authorities within the country;
     (c) With the central offices of other countries.
It should centralise, in each country, all information of a nature to facilitate the investigation, prevention and punishment of counterfeiting currency.

Article 13
The central offices of the different countries should correspond directly with each other.

Article 14
Each central office should, so far as it considers expedient, forward to the central offices of the other countries a set of cancelled specimens of the actual currency of its own country.
It should, subject to the same limitation, regularly notify to the central offices in foreign countries, giving all necessary particulars:
     (a) New currency issues made in its country;
     (b) The withdrawal of currency from circulation, whether as out of date or otherwise.
Except in cases of purely local interest, each central office should, so far as it thinks expedient, notify to the central offices in foreign countries:
(1) Any discovery of counterfeit currency. Notification of the forgery of bank or currency notes shall be accompanied by a technical description of the forgeries, to be provided solely by the institution whose notes have been forged. A photographic reproduction or, if possible, a specimen forged note should be transmitted. In urgent cases, a notification and a brief description made by the police authorities may be discreetly communicated to the central offices interested, without prejudice to the notification and technical description mentioned above;
(2) Investigation and prosecutions in cases of counterfeiting, and arrests, convictions and expulsions of counterfeiters, and also, where possible, their movements, together with any details which may be of use, and in particular their descriptions, finger‑prints and photographs;
(3) Details of discoveries of forgeries, stating whether it has been possible to seize all counterfeit currency put into circulation.

Article 15
In order to ensure, improve and develop direct international co‑operation in the prevention and punishment of counterfeiting currency, the representatives of the central offices of the High Contracting Parties should from time to time hold conferences with the participation of representatives of the banks of issue and of the central