Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2023 Royal Australian Mint No. 7) Determination 2023 (Cth)

Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2023 Royal Australian Mint No. 7) Determination 2023

I, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.

Dated               4 October   2023

Dr Andrew Leigh

Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Currency (Australian Coins) Determination 2019   2

1  Name

This instrument is the Currency (Australian Coins) Amendment (2023 Royal Australian Mint No. 7) Determination 2023.

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.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Currency Act 1965.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Currency (Australian Coins) Determination 2019

1  Before Schedule 2023, Part 1, clause 2

Insert:

1  Specifications—circulating coins

Each item of the following table specifies the standard composition, the standard weight, the allowable variation from that standard weight, the design and the dimensions of a coin whose denomination and standard composition are specified in that item.

Specifications of coins
Item	Denomination		Standard composition	Standard weight and allowable variation (g)		Maximum diameter or other dimension (mm)	Maximum thickness (mm)	Shape	Edge	Obverse		Reverse			Date of effect
1		$2	Copper, aluminium and nickel		6.60 ± 0.60	20.62	3.70	S1	E3		O8		R24	06/10/2023
2		$1	Copper, aluminium and nickel		9.00 ± 0.66	25.20	3.46	S1	E3		O8		R25	06/10/2023
3		50¢	Copper and nickel		15.55 ± 0.96	31.65	3.16	S5	E2		O8		R26	06/10/2023
4		20¢	Copper and nickel		11.30 ± 0.78	28.65	2.92	S1	E1		O8		R27	06/10/2023
5		10¢	Copper and nickel		5.65 ± 0.49	23.82	2.30	S1	E1		O8		R28	06/10/2023
6		5¢	Copper and nickel		2.83 ± 0.33	19.53	1.78	S1	E1		O8		R29	06/10/2023

2  Schedule 2023, Part 1, clause 3 (after item 26)

Insert:

27 Obverse O8 A design consisting of an effigy of King Charles III and the following: (a) “CHARLES III”; and (b) “AUSTRALIA”; and (c) the inscription, in Arabic numerals, of a year; and (d) “DT”.