Wilkinson's policy on old fivers and tenners

Bamber19

eyelinerprincess wrote: »

So I can refuse to serve the Romanians that come in trying to give me £1 worth of 1ps?

Need to remember that next time...

Yes, but not for the reasons i said, you can refuse (as moonrakerz said) becasue legal tender is only applicable when paying debts, so in a shop situation it can always be refused.

I was wrong about that part but not about what amounts of coin constitutes legal tender (wow there's a first, me admitting to being wrong)

However if your reason for refusing to serve them isn't because of the way they pay but because they are Romanian you may fall foul of the Race Relations Act 1976.

eyelinerprincess

It's not because of their nationality, it's because they insist on paying with 1ps every time they come in and it's so time consuming to count them all, especially when the queue's a mile long.