Currency Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 2521

 

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 Regulation under the Currency Act 1965.

Dated 28 September 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Morris

Minister of State for Industrial Relations for and

on behalf of the Treasurer

 

Designs of coins

Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended:

(a) by inserting in subparagraph (b) (ii) “, other than a holey dollar coin bearing, on its reverse side, the design prescribed by sub-subparagraph (d) (viiibca) (b)” after “the denomination of $1”;

(b) by omitting subparagraph (d) (va) and substituting the following subparagraph:

“(va) in the case of a coin of the denomination of 25 cents:

(a) a representation, in traditional Australian Aboriginal style, of 2 persons against a stippled background, the inscription ‘QUARTER OZ.•THE DUMP•999 SILVER’ and a reference (in figures) to the year of the coin, all encircled by raised beads inside the rim of the coin; or

(b) a representation, in traditional Australian Aboriginal style, of a person, stippled, the inscription ‘QUARTER OZ•VTHE DUMP•999 SILVER’ and a reference (in figures) to the year of the coin, all encircled by raised beads inside the rim of the coin;”;

(S.R. 286/89)—Cat. No. 14/13.9.1989

 

(c) by omitting from subparagraph (d) (vi) “(viiib) or (viiibaa)” and substituting “(viiib), (viiibaa) or (viiibab)”;

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

“(viiibab) in the case of a coin of the denomination of 50 cents that refers on its obverse side to the year 1989 as the year of the coin:

(a) where the composition of the coin is copper and nickel—the figures and representation referred to in subparagraph (vi); or

(b) where the composition of the coin is 92.5% silver and 7.5% other metal—the design prescribed by subparagraph (vii) or (viii), sub-subparagraph (viiia) (b) or subparagraph (viiib) or (viiibaa);”;

(e) by omitting subparagraph (d) (viiibca) and substituting the following subparagraph:

“(viiibca) in the case of a holey dollar coin:

(a) a representation, in traditional Australian Aboriginal style, of a snake, the inscription ‘ONE OUNCE•THE HOLEY DOLLAR•999 SILVER’ and a reference (in figures) to the year of the coin, all encircled by raised beads inside the rim of the coin; or

(b) a representation, in traditional Australian Aboriginal style, of 2 crocodiles, the inscription ‘ONE OUNCE•THE HOLEY DOLLAR•999 SILVER’ and a reference (in figures) to the year of the coin, all encircled by raised beads inside the rim of the coin;”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 September 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 21 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 103 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 Nos. 103, 229 and 231.

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