On Aug 8, 10:28*pm, Neil Williams
wrote:
semiretired wrote:

Anybody is certainly fully entitled to refuse Scottish, Northern
Irish, Manx or Channel Islands notes, as are they entitled to
refuse payment by cheque, Debit Card or Credit Card, as all
of them are equally not legal tender.

Anyone is entitled to refuse any payment of any kind for any reason
(so long as it is not a reason, e.g. racial discrimination, that is
against the law) so long as the payment is in a situation where no
debt exists.
Legal tender only applies to things like a meal in a restaurant, where
a debt exists at the time of paying because you've already eaten the
food. *If you buy a Tube ticket, you're doing so in advance of the
journey, so no debt has occurred, so they may take or not take any
method of payment they wish. *If you fare-dodge then are charged a
Penalty Fare, OTOH, a debt exists (as the travel has already occurred
and cannot un-occur) so the legal tender rules would apply. Neil

Then I think we are agreed that refusing money "because it is not
legal tender" is a red herring.