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Statutory Rules

1977 No. 17

REGULATION UNDER THE CURRENCY ACT 1965.*

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 this eleventh day of February, 1977.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

Signature of Minister of State for Aboriginal Affairs for and on behalf of the Treasurer

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Aboriginal Affairs for and on behalf of the Treasurer.

 

Amendments of the Currency Regulations†

Designs of coins.

Regulation 4 of the Currency Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (vi) of paragraph (d) the words “ the next succeeding sub-paragraph ” and substituting the words and letters “ sub-paragraph (vii) or (viii) ”;

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

(c) by adding at the end of paragraph (d) the following word and sub-paragraph:—

“ ; and (viii) in the case of a coin of the denomination of Fifty cents that refers on its obverse side to the year 1977 as the year of the coin—the inscriptions ‘ SILVER JUBILEE ’ and ‘ 50 CENTS ’ and a representation of a wattle blossom surrounded by a representation of 25 overlapping crowns.”.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 16 February. 1977

† Statutory Rules 1966, No. 21 as amended by Statutory Rules l969, No. 137; 1970, No. 31; and 1975, No. 139.

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