Currency Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE CURRENCY ACT 1965-1969.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Currency Act 1965-1969.

Dated this fifth day of March, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Treasurer.

 

Amendments of the Currency Regulations

Designs of coins.

Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (v) of paragraph (d) the word “and” (last occurring); and

(b)by omitting sub-paragraph (vi) of that paragraph and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraphs: —

“(vi) in the case of a coin of the denomination of Fifty cents, other than a coin referred to in the next succeeding sub-paragraph— the figures ‘50’ and a representation of the Arms of the Commonwealth; and

(vii) in the case of a coin of the denomination of Fifty cents that refers on its obverse side to the year 1970 as the year of the coin—the inscription ‘FIFTY CENTS’, an effigy of Captain James Cook, the navigator, superimposed on a representation of Australia showing the route of his voyage along its coast, a reproduction of his signature and the figures ‘1770’.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1970.

  Statutory Rules 1966, No. 21, as amended by Statutory Rules 1969, No. 137.

Printed by Authority by the Government Printer of the Commonwealth of Australia

11220/70—Price 5c 10/13.2.1970