without Bermuda Monetary Authority permission, a court heard yesterday.

Now the 40-year-old will face a hearing next month into the prosecution's application for her to forfeit the money.

Yesterday Rubain, who had faced a a charge of trying to export the money without permission but was not asked to plead, appeared at Magistrates' Court.

Prosecutor Sgt. Donald Grant said Rubain, of Secret Lane, Pembroke, was inspected by Customs officers on October 20 last year.

Inside her handbag, they found the US $1,000 in a Bermuda College pamphlet.

Sgt. Grant said Rubain, who admits the facts, protested she did not know the money was there.

She said she had accidentally picked up the pamphlet before leaving for the Airport, added Sgt. Grant.

Rubain's lawyer Mr. Charles Vaucrosson said his client had put the money aside for her son's school fees.

Magistrate the Wor. Cheryl Ann Mapp ruled that a court hearing into the prosecution's application for the money to be forfeited would be heard on February 3.

Ms Mapp also made a Section 64 order.

Mr. Vaucrosson later explained to The Royal Gazette under the order the court accepted his client had shown no criminal intent.

"The charge has been shelved,'' he said.

He said the forfeiture would be contested at next month's hearing.