Legal tender de France. Anyone refusing such monies for their whole value would be prosecuted (French Penal Code art. R. 642-3). According to the "Economic and Monetary Union Act, 1998" of the Republic of Ireland which replaced the legal tender provisions that had been re-enacted in Irish legislation from previous British enactments, "No person, other than the Central Bank of Ireland and such persons as may be designated by the Minister by order, shall be obliged to accept more than 50 coins denominated in euro or in cent in any single transaction." The "Decimal Currency Act, 1970" governed legal tender prior to
Bank of England £5 note this issue, this is unacceptable to vegans, vegetarians, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Jews and other groups in the UK, and one Cambridge cafe boycotted the new note. The note's manufacturer, Innovia Security, was looking into changing the recipe for the polymer used, so as to contain no animal products, which are added to polymer pellets at an early stage of production. However, on 10 August 2017 the Bank of England announced that all future notes, including future £5 note prints would continue the use of traces of tallow. Sources from the Bank of England: The series G (polymer) note is