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Northern Ireland banknotes
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Only bank of England notes are legal tender in England and Wales? No offence meant, but...
Eh? That's out of your bum your speaking. I've used Scottish notes plenty of times in England and we regularly get Belfast notes through our business with no problems. I lived in London 3 years and apart from them having the odd look at a Scottish note, never a problem.
"Are Scottish & Northern Irish notes legal tender?
In short �No� these notes are not legal tender; only Bank of England notes are legal tender but only in England and Wales.
The term legal tender does not in itself govern the acceptability of banknotes in transactions. Whether or not notes have legal tender status, their acceptability as a means of payment is essentially a matter for agreement between the parties involved. Legal tender has a very narrow technical meaning in relation to the settlement of debt. If a debtor pays in legal tender the exact amount he owes under the terms of a contract, he has good defence in law if he is subsequently sued for non-payment of the debt. In ordinary everyday transactions, the term �legal tender� has very little practical application."
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/faqs.htm
Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes are not 'legal tender' anywhere, even in Scotland and Northern Ireland:
http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/1_7.html
Chris
Well, I do not know about taking the goods away... However, the legal tender in the UK is STERLING. If the notes say sterling, then they are legal tender. However, some retailers will not taken them as there are a high amout of counterfeit Scottish and Irish notes in circulation. My advice to you is to get them changed at any High Street bank. They have the means and ways to check such notes, and send the cash back to theri origin.
..........cont ), that's stupid! BTW there are other rules on legal currency, no one is obliged to take more than 20p worth of copper coins off you, so if you try to pay for your 65p bus fare in 1p and 2p coins the driver doesn't have to accept it, and more than �5 in silver coins is also not legal tender.
I worked on a bar at a golf club, and we regularly had a customer who would pay with Scottish notes. We were always told that providing the note has the word 'sterling' on it, it's legal tender in the UK.
We readily accepted the notes from this man, but customers always refused them as change, as they thought they weren't proper money! No matter how many times we tried to explain they're OK, they always refused them and wanted an 'English' one.
But that's golfers for you!