Currency Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 601

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Currency Regulations2 (Amendment)

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

Dated 19 February 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Industrial Relations for and on behalf of the Treasurer

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Weight, dimensions and remedy of coins

1. Regulation 3 of the Currency Regulations is amended by inserting in subregulation (1a) “or 4 (d) (viiied) (b)” after “4 (d) (viiiec) (b)”.

Designs of coins

2. Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended:

(a) by inserting in subparagraph (c) (iac)”, other than a coin referred to in subparagraph (d) (viiibe) or (viiibh)” after “of $5”:

(b) by omitting from subparagraph (d) (viiibda) “(viiibf) or (viiibg)” and substituting “(viiibf). (viiibg) or (viiibh)”;

(c) by inserting after subparagraph (d) (viiibg) the following subparagraph:

“(viiibh) in the case of a coin of the denomination of $5 that refers on its obverse side to the year 1990 as the year of the coin—the inscription ‘5 DOLLARS’ and a representation of the statue, sculpted by Peter Corlett, known as ‘Simpson and his donkey”;”;

 

S. R. 49/90–Cat No. 14/12.2.1990

 

(d) by inserting after subparagraph (d) (viiiec) the following subparagraph:

“(viiied) in the case of a coin of the denomination of $10 that refers on its obverse side to the year 1990 as the year of the coin:

(a) being a coin the weight, dimensions and remedy of which are as specified in item 10 in the Schedule—the inscriptions ‘WESTERN AUSTRALIA’ and ‘10 DOLLARS’ and a representation of the coat of arms of the State of Western Australia; or

(b) being a coin, the weight, dimensions and remedy of which are as specified in item 10 in the Schedule or a coin the weight, dimensions and remedy of which are as specified in item 10a in the Schedule—the inscription ‘10 DOLLARS’ and a representation of a sulphur-crested cockatoo, with wings outstretched and crest erect, on a tree branch;”;

(e) by omitting from subparagraph (d) (ix) “(xiii) or (xiv)” and substituting “(xiii), (xiv) or (xv)”;

(f) by omitting from subparagraph (d) (xiii) “and” (last occurring);

(g) by adding at the end of paragraph (d) the following word and subparagraph:

“; and (xv) in the case of a coin of the denomination of $200 that refers on its obverse side to the year 1990 as the year of the coin—the inscriptions ‘PRIDE OF AUSTRALIA’ and ‘TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS’ and a representation of a platypus in riverside habitat, all encircled by raised beads inside the rim of the coin.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 February 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 21 as amended by 1969 No. 137; 1970 No. 31; 1975 No. 139; 1977 No. 17; 1980 No. 288: 1981 Nos. 199 and 344; 1984 No. 29; 1985 Nos. 241 and 369; 1986 Nos. 83 and 358: 1987 Nos. 142, 196 and 300; 1988 Nos. 31, 45, 137, 200 and 380; 1989 Nos. 103, 229, 231, 252 and 278.

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