To provide for the prevention of the counterfeiting of coin and the forging or altering of certain bank notes and for matters incidental thereto, to provide for certain persons being dealt with under the law relating to extradition, and to amend the Native Territories Penal Code (Act No. 24 of 1886 of the Cape of Good Hope), the Crimes Ordinance, 1904, of the Transvaal, the South African Reserve Bank Act, 1944, and the Criminal Procedure Act, 1955.

BE IT ENACTED by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—