New Zealand Gazette – 1896 – No. 85

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✨ Coinage Act Schedules



Nov. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1883

(10.) To regulate any matters relative to the coinage and the Mint within the present prerogative of the Crown which are not provided for by this Act.

(11.) To revoke or alter any Proclamation previously made.

Every such Proclamation shall come into operation on the date therein in that behalf mentioned, and shall have effect as if it were enacted in this Act.

Legal Proceedings.

Section 18. Any summary proceeding under this Act may be taken, and any penalty under this Act may be recovered—In any British possession, in the Courts, and before such justices or magistrates, and in the manner in which the like proceedings and penalties may be taken and recovered by the law of such possession, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, or in such other Courts, or before such other justices or magistrates, or in such other manner as any Act or ordinance having the force of law in such possession may from time to time provide.

Miscellaneous.

Section 20. The Acts mentioned in the First Part of the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of such schedule mentioned, and those mentioned in the Second Part of the same schedule are hereby repealed entirely:

Provided that,—

(1.) This repeal shall not affect anything already done or suffered, or any right already acquired or accrued.

SCHEDULES TO THE COINAGE ACT, 1870, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 2 AND SCHEDULE OF THE COINAGE ACT, 1891.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Denomination of Coin. Standard Weight. Least Current Weight. Standard Fineness. Remedy Allowance. Weight per Piece. Millesimal Fineness.
Imperial Weight. Metric Weight. Imperial Grains. Metric Grains.
Gold— Eleven-twelfths fine gold, one-twelfth alloy; or millesimal fineness 916·6
Five pound 616·37239 39·94028 612·50000 39·68935 1·00 0·06479
Two pound 246·54895 15·97611 245·00000 15·87574 0·40 0·02592
Sovereign 123·27447 7·98805 122·50000 7·93787 0·20 0·01296
Half-sovereign 61·63723 3·99402 61·12500 3·96083 0·15 0·00972
Silver— Thirty-seven fortieths fine silver, three fortieths alloy; or millesimal fineness 925
Crown 436·36363 28·27590 2·000 0·1296
Double florin 14·13795 1·678 0·1087
Half-crown 218·18181 14·13795 0·997 0·0788
Florin 174·54545 11·31036 0·578 0·0646
Shilling 87·27272 5·65518 0·346 0·0375
Sixpence 43·63636 2·82759 0·262 0·0224
Croat or fourpence 29·09090 1·88506 0·212 0·0170
Threepence 21·81818 1·41379 0·144 0·0138
Twopence 14·54545 0·94253 0·087 0·0093
Penny 7·27272 0·47126 0·0056
Bronze— Mixed metal, copper, tin, and zinc None.
Penny 145·83333 9·44984 2·91666 0·18899
Halfpenny 87·50000 5·66990 1·75000 0·11339
Farthing 43·75000 2·83495 0·87500 0·05669

SECOND SCHEDULE.

First Part.—Acts partly repealed.

Year and Chapter. Title. Extent of Repeal.
2 Hen. 6, c. 17* .. For regulating and ascertaining the fineness of silver work So much as relates to the Master of the Mint.
29 & 30 Vict. c. 82 An Act to amend the Acts relating to the standard weights and measures, and to the standard trial-pieces of the coin of the realm Section thirteen.
  • C. 14 in Ruffhead.

Second Part.—Acts wholly repealed.

Year and Chapter. Title.
18 & 19 Cha. 2, c. 5 † .. An Act for encouraging of coinage.
14 Geo. 3, c. 70 An Act for applying a certain sum of money for calling in and recoining the deficient gold coin of this realm; and for regulating the manner of receiving the same at the Bank of England; and for taking there an account of the deficiency of the said coin and making satisfaction for the same; and for authorising all persons to cut and deface all gold coin that shall not be allowed to be current by His Majesty’s Proclamation.
14 Geo. 3, c. 92 An Act for regulating and ascertaining the weights to be made use of in weighing the gold and silver coin of this kingdom.
15 Geo. 3, c. 30 An Act for allowing the officer appointed to mark or stamp the weights to be made use of in weighing the gold and silver coin of this kingdom, in pursuance of an Act made in the last session of Parliament, to take certain fees in the execution of his office.
39 Geo. 3, c. 94 An Act to ascertain the salary of the master and worker of His Majesty’s Mint.
52 Geo. 3, c. 138 An Act for the further prevention of the counterfeiting of silver tokens issued by the Governor and company of the Bank of England called dollars, and of silver pieces issued and circulated by the said Governor and company called tokens, and for the further prevention of frauds practised by the imitation of the notes or bills of the said Governor and company.
52 Geo. 3, c. 157 An Act to prevent the issuing and circulating of pieces of gold and silver or other metal, usually called tokens, except such as are issued by the Banks of England and Ireland respectively.
54 Geo. 3, c. 4 An Act to continue until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled “An Act to continue and amend an Act of the present session, to prevent the issuing and circulating of pieces of gold and silver or other metal, usually called tokens, except such as are issued by the Banks of England and Ireland respectively.”
56 Geo. 3, c. 68 An Act to provide for a new silver coinage, and to regulate the currency of the gold and silver coin of this realm.
57 Geo. 3, c. 46 An Act to prevent the issuing and circulating of pieces of copper or other metal usually called tokens.

† 18 Cha. 2 in Ruffhead.



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