(1) A person who is convicted of being a common noteer is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for life.
(2) A person is a common noteer—
(a) if he or she is proved to have used, or to have aided and abetted the use of a device specially contrived or adapted for purposes of committing any crime with respect to note;
(b) if he or she is convicted of a crime with respect to note, having been previously convicted of any offence punishable on indictment for counterfeiting, falsification or forgery; or
(c) if he or she is proved to have had in his or her possession, custody, or control at the same time or at different times, 3 or more notes which he or she knew to have been counterfeited or falsified, and by means of which he or she intended to commit any such indictable offence.