Christmas Island
No. 131 of 1965
An Act to amend the Christmas
Island Act 1958–1963 in relation to Decimal Currency.
[Assented to 18 December, 1965]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Christmas Island Act 1965.
(2.) The Christmas
Island Act 1958–1963, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Christmas Island Act 1958–1965.
Commencement.
2.This
Act shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, One thousand
nine hundred and sixty-six.
Currency
and legal tender.
3.Section
19 of the Christmas Island Act 1958–1963
is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words and figures “Coinage Act 1909–1947” and inserting in
their stead the words and figures “Currency
Act