Roxburgh wrote:I think it is illegal to refuse to accept legal tender. I have been told that if you offer to pay 3 times and each time payment is refused (with witnesses) then you can just take the goods and walk because you made a reasonable attempt to pay.
Perhaps a legal eagle can clarify.
That's got to be laugh, just try using it as a defence when you're up for shoplifting. You haven't paid, you don't have title to the goods, end of story.
Don't know about paper money, but there are limits on the amounts of coins that can be presented. Comes up every so often when some disgruntled citizen takes offence to a fine, and turns up with the intent of bringing the payement office to a halt by paying it in full, but in pennies. They end up going home, fine unpaid (and probably overdue as they leave it to the last day, intending to force the office to take the money or it's the officials fault if it's late) after finding the max amount of coin that must be accepted is only a few pounds (sorry, forget the actual value).
Ask in a bank, they should know.
