Num. 28. 731

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1897.

Applying Parts of the Coinage Act, 1870 (as amended by
the Coinage Act, 1891), to the Australasian Colonies.

(L.S.)
JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Order made by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, reciting that by virtue of the Coinage Act, 1870, it was lawful for Her Majesty the Queen, by the advice of her Privy Council, from time to time by Proclamation to direct that the whole or any part of that Act should apply to and be in force in any British possession with or without any modifications contained in the Proclamation, and reciting that part of the First Schedule to the Coinage Act, 1870, had by virtue of section two of the Coinage Act, 1891, been replaced by the Schedule to that Act, and further reciting that it was expedient certain portions of the said Act of 1870 as so amended should, with modifications, apply to and be in force in the Colonies of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia, and that there had been that day read at the Board a draft Proclamation for such extension, it was by the now reciting Order in Council ordered that the said Proclamation should be issued, and that a copy thereof should be forwarded to the Governor of each of the said colonies, and there promulgated by him, and should take effect in each colony as from the date of the promulgation thereof in the colony: And whereas the Proclamation referred to in the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council was made and issued by Her Majesty the Queen on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six:

Now, therefore, I, Sir James Prendergast, Knight, the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the direction contained in the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council, and in exercise of every power and authority enabling me in this behalf, do hereby promulgate the said Proclamation so made and issued on the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, as aforesaid, and a copy whereof is set forth hereunder; and, also in exercise of the like power and authority as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Proclamation shall take effect in the Colony of New Zealand as from the date of the present publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, Administrator of the Government in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, at the Government House, at Wellington; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

R. J. SEDDON.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Proclamation, dated 1st August, 1896, referred to above.

BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.

Victoria, R.

We do hereby, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, proclaim, direct, and ordain as follows:—

(1.) Those parts of the Coinage Act, 1870, as amended by section two and the Schedule of the Coinage Act, 1891, which are set out in this Proclamation shall, as herein modified, apply to and be in force in each of our Colonies of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New Zealand, Queensland, and Western Australia.

(2.) The said enactments, as modified, set out herein, shall come into force in each of the said colonies at the date of the promulgation of the Proclamation in that colony.

(3.) The said enactments as so modified are the following:—

Section 1. This Act may be cited as “The Coinage Act, 1870.”

Section 2. In this Act,—

The term “Treasury” means the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury for the time being, or any two of them;

The term “the Mint” means, except as expressly provided, Her Majesty’s Royal Mint in England;

The term “British possession” means any colony, plantation, island, territory, or settlement within Her Majesty’s dominions and not within the United Kingdom; and

The term “person” includes a body corporate.

Section 3. All coins made at the Mint of the denominations mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act shall be of the weight and fineness specified in that schedule, and the standard trial-plates shall be made accordingly.

If any coin of gold, silver, or bronze, but of any other denomination than that of the coins mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, is hereafter coined at the Mint, such coin shall be of a weight and fineness bearing the same proportion to the weight and fineness specified in that schedule as the denomination of such coin bears to the denominations mentioned in that schedule.

Provided that in the making of coins a remedy (or variation from the standard weight and fineness specified in the said First Schedule) shall be allowed of an amount not exceeding the amount specified in that schedule.

Section 4. A tender of payment of money, if made in coins which have been issued by the Mint in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and have not been called in by any Proclamation made in pursuance of this Act, and have not become diminished in weight, by wear or otherwise, so as to be of less weight than the current weight, that is to say, than the weight (if any) specified as the least current weight in the First Schedule to this Act, or less than such weight as may be declared by any Proclamation made in pursuance of this Act, shall be a legal tender,—

In the case of gold coins for a payment of any amount;

In the case of silver coins for a payment of an amount not exceeding forty shillings, but for no greater amount;