Section 35: Sole right to issue currency
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
35. Sole right to issue currency
(1) The Bank shall have the sole right to issue Mauritius currency notes
and coins.
(2) Any person, other than the Bank, who issues Mauritius currency
notes, bank notes or coins or any documents or tokens payable to bearer on
demand having the appearance of or purporting to pass as legal tender or as
currency, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine
not exceeding 2 million rupees and to penal servitude.