Section 259: Prohibition of making currency contrary to standards

1) No authority or person entrusted by the law in force to make currency shall knowingly make currency in contravention of the standards specified by law, make currency in violation of the terms and restrictions applicable to the making of currency, make currency in excess of the quantity specified or do any act with the intention of making currency with such deviation or cause benefit to himself or herself or any other person from such act or facilitate such act.

2) A person who commits, or causes to be committed, the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years and a fine not exceeding seventy thousand rupees.