Currency Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 1991

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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 Regulation under the Currency Act  1965.

 Dated 15 July 1981.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN HOWARD

Treasurer

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Designs of coins

Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended—

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-paragraph (d) (vi) “or (viii)” and substituting “, (viii) or (viiiA)”;

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-paragraph (d) (viii) “and” (last occurring);

• (c)

  by inserting after sub-paragraph (d) (viii) the following sub-paragraph:

  • “(viiiA)

    in the case of a coin of the denomination of 50 cents that refers on its obverse side to the year 1981 as the year of the coin—

    • (A)

      the figures and representation referred to in sub-paragraph (vi); or

    • (B)

      the inscriptions ‘H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER’ and ‘FIFTY CENTS’ and an effigy of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer;”;

• (d)

  by inserting “, other than a coin referred to in sub-paragraph (x)” after “dollars” in sub-paragraph (d) (ix); and

• (e)

  by adding at the end thereof the following word and sub-paragraph:

  • “; and

    (x) in the case of a coin of the denomination of $200 that refers on its obverse side to the year 1981 as the year of the coin-the inscriptions ‘H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER’ and ‘200 DOLLARS’ and an effigy of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 July 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1966 No. 21 as amended by 1969 No. 137; 1970 No. 31; 1975 No. 139; 1977 No. 17; 1980 No. 288.