On Scottish people

[thanmuwa]

And the sad thing is, Scottish and Northern Irish notes aren't legal tender in England . But then not many people know what "legal tender" means anyway.....

[O'Callaghan]

And the sad thing is, Scottish and Northern Irish notes aren't legal tender in England . But then not many people know what "legal tender" means anyway.....

Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I know some law, and what this really means is:-

1) In the skit, the supermarket could take or leave the Scottish notes as they please, although they might be intimidated into taking it by the big yin behind the fruit display!

and (this being the interesting legal bit)

2) The legal defence of 'payment in full' falls on it's a*** if you included just one Scottish banknote in your payment (in England of course).

I've only heard of Michael McIntyre very recently, although I'd actually seen this clip before, but he is the funniest man I've seen in a long while.

[Phil]

The legal defence of 'payment in full' falls on it's a*** if you included just one Scottish banknote in your payment (in England of course).

In fact Scottish money is not legal tender in Scotland either.

[Galician]

Let me get this straight. You all form one kingdom, but print separate money...and that money isn't valid even in the nation which prints it?

[thanmuwa]

Let me get this straight. You all form one kingdom, but print separate money...and that money isn't valid even in the nation which prints it?

Scottish notes are legal currency, and are valid as currency everywhere in the UK. They are just not legal tender, which has a very narrow legal definition....
Some of the Northern Irish notes (Northern Bank) are plastic (like Australian notes) and are printed portrait rather than landscape, so getting those accepted in England is even more fun than Scottish notes!
Trivia: The Northern Irish branch of the Bank of Ireland prints Sterling notes too, which makes it one of the few banks that prints two different currencies concurrently (Sterling in the UK and Punts and now Euros in the Republic). .

Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I know some law, and what this really means is:-

1) In the skit, the supermarket could take or leave the Scottish notes as they please, although they might be intimidated into taking it by the big yin behind the fruit display!

No shop is obliged to sell anything to you, so they can refuse payment in any form whatsoever, be it English notes, Scottish notes, magic beans or legal tender....

and (this being the interesting legal bit)

2) The legal defence of 'payment in full' falls on it's a*** if you included just one Scottish banknote in your payment (in England of course).

As far as legal tender goes, yes. If the person you paid the debt had banked it rather than rejecting it though, payment in full would have taken place, regardless of the notes used .