STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CURRENCY ACT 1965-1969.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Currency Act 1965-1969.

Dated this second day of September, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Signature of Treasurer

Treasurer.

Amendments of the Currency Regulations†

Designs of coins.

1. Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

"(a) in respect of the shape of the coin—

(i) in the case of a coin of the denomination of Fifty cents—having the shape of an equilateral and equiangular dodecagon; and

(ii) in any other case—circular;"; and

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) the words " or Two cents " and inserting in their stead the words ", Two cents or Fifty cents ".

Dimensions of coins.

2. Regulation 5 of the Currency Regulations is amended by omitting the words " for the diameter of the coin " and inserting in their stead the words " for the shortest diameter of a coin of the denomination of Fifty cents or for the diameter of a coin of another denomination ".

Remedy in respect of composition of coins of denomination of Fifty cents.

3. Regulation 7 of the Currency Regulations is repealed.

The Schedule.

4. The Schedule to the Currency Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

THE SCHEDULE Regulations 3, 5, 6.

First Column

Second Column

Third Column

Fourth Column

Fifth Column

Denomination of Coin

Standard Weight

Length of shortest diameter or of diameter

Thickness

Remedy in Respect of Weight

 

Grains

Inches

Inches

Grains

Fifty cents

240.0

1.246

0.110

6

Twenty cents

174.6

1.128

0.099

5

Ten cents

87.3

0.934

0.078

3

Five cents

43.6

0.769

0.061

2

Two cents

80.0

0.855

0.080

3

One cent

40.0

0.695

0.062

2

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

† Statutory Rules 1966, No. 21.

Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by W. G. MurrAy at the Government Printing Office, Canberra

20552/69—Price 5c 10/20.8.1969