Currency Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 2311

 

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 29 August 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

 

Weight, dimensions and remedy of coins

1. Regulation 3 of the Currency Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from subregulation (1) “In respect of a coin” and substituting “Subject to subregulation (1a), in respect of a coin”;

(b) by inserting after subregulation (1) the following subregulation:

“(1a) The standard weight, dimensions and remedy in respect of weight specified in item 10a in the Schedule are prescribed only in respect of a coin bearing, on the reverse side, a design prescribed by sub-subparagraph 4 (d) (viiiec) (b).”.

Designs of coins

2. Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended by omitting subparagraph (d) (viiiec) and substituting the following subparagraph:

“(viiiec) in the case of a coin of the denomination of $10 that refers on its obverse side to the year 1989 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 ‘QUEENSLAND’ and “10 DOLLARS’ and a representation of the coat of arms of the State of Queensland; or

(S.R. 265/89)—Cat. No. 14/21.8.1989

 

(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 ‘TEN DOLLARS’ and a representation of 2 kookaburras perched at the fork of a tree branch;”.

Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Currency Regulations is amended by inserting after item 10 the following item:

“10a $10 92.5% silver and 7.5% other metal 40.00 34.10 5.10 0.50”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 August 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 No. 103 and 229.

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