Crimes (Currency) (Authorised Persons) Instrument 2022

I, Dr James Edward Chalmers, Treasurer, make the following instrument.

Dated   9 June 2022

Dr James Edward Chalmers

Treasurer

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name 

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

5  Definitions

Part 2—Authorised persons

6  Persons authorised to consent to current coins or paper money being defaced or destroyed

7  Persons authorised to consent to design, make, print or distribute material of certain kinds

8  Persons authorised to consent to import or export of certain material

Schedule 1—Repeals

Crimes (Currency) Authorisation 2018

Part 1—Preliminary

1  Name

  This instrument is the Crimes (Currency) (Authorised Persons) Instrument 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

Note: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 as in force from time to time.

  In this instrument:

the Act means the Crimes (Currency) Act 1981.

Treasury means the Department of the Treasury.

Part 2—Authorised persons

6  Persons authorised to consent to current coins or paper money being defaced or destroyed

  For the purposes of section 16 of the Act, each person occupying, or performing the duties of, one of the following positions is an authorised person:

 (a) the Secretary to the Treasury;

 (b) the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia;

 (c) Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Australian Mint;

 (d) an SES employee in the Treasury;

 (e) the following positions in the Note Issue Department in the Reserve Bank of Australia:

 (i) Head;

 (ii) Deputy Head;

 (iii) Head Scientist;

 (iv) Senior Manager, Banknote Strategy and Engagement.

7  Persons authorised to consent to design, make, print or distribute material of certain kinds

  For the purposes of section 19 of the Act, each person occupying, or performing the duties of, one of the following positions is an authorised person:

 (a) the Secretary to the Treasury;

 (b) the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia;

 (c) Chief Executive of the Australian Office of Financial Management;

 (d) an SES employee in the Treasury;

 (e) the following positions in the Note Issue Department in the Reserve Bank of Australia:

 (i) Head;

 (ii) Deputy Head;

 (iii) Head Scientist;

 (iv) Senior Manager, Banknote Strategy and Engagement.

8  Persons authorised to consent to import or export of certain material

  For the purposes of section 20 of the Act, each person occupying, or performing the duties of, one of the following positions is an authorised person:

 (a) the Secretary to the Treasury;

 (b) the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia;

 (c) Chief Executive of the Australian Office of Financial Management;

 (d) an SES employee in the Treasury;

 (e) the following positions in the Note Issue Department in the Reserve Bank of Australia:

 (i) Head;

 (ii) Deputy Head;

 (iii) Head Scientist;

 (iv) Senior Manager, Banknote Strategy and Engagement.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Crimes (Currency) Authorisation 2018

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.