Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2003 (No. 2)

The Determination is built around a small number of interlocking technical concepts and textual mechanisms.

• Specification-by-item-and-column. Schedule 1, Part 1 is the matrix: each item (numerical code) corresponds to a denomination and sets composition, weight (with allowable variation in grams), diameter (millimetres), thickness (millimetres), shape symbol, edge symbol, obverse symbol and reverse symbol. Section 3(1) cross-references the schedule: the Determination operates by declaring that for a coin having the composition specified in Column 3 and the “determination” in Column 2, the remaining physical parameters in Columns 4-6 apply.

• Composition and multiplicity. The specification for standard composition sits in Column 3. The schedule includes multiple entries for the same face value but different compositions or designs (for example several distinct $1 and $2 entries appear, and precious-metal coins of various denominations are specified as “not less than 99.9% silver”). Those multiple entries mean the Determination recognises different coins carrying the same denomination but differing in metal content, weight/tolerance, or design code.

• Physical tolerances. Column 4 gives a standard weight with an allowable variation in grams. Thickness and diameter are also specified to two decimal places in millimetres. Section 3(2) defines “diameter” for non-circular coins as the distance between two parallel faces of the edge, tying the geometric measurement to the shape codes in Part 2.

• Shape and edge as coded metadata. Part 2 supplies the code glossary. Shapes include S1 (circular) and S3 (dodecahedral). Edge treatments are E1 (continuously milled), E2 (8 segments, 4 milled and 4 plain), E3 (14 segments, 7 milled and 7 plain) and E4 (plain). These codes are the operative shorthand used in the table in Part 1 and are explained in plain language in Part 2.

• Obverse and reverse design codes. Obverse codes (O32-O37) and reverse codes (R269, R273, R274, R309-R319, R311, R315-R318) are defined in Part 2 by textual descriptions. The obverse codes generally specify an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and monogram ‘IRB’ plus inscriptions such as ‘ELIZABETH II’ and ‘AUSTRALIA 2003’; selected obverse codes add Port Phillip Pattern imagery and inscriptions for gold-weight denominations and specific face-value inscriptions. Reverse codes define the pictorial motifs and inscriptions (for instance R274 = echidna with ‘5’; R311 = group of human faces and inscription ‘20’ surrounded by ‘AUSTRALIA’S VOLUNTEERS - MAKING A DIFFERENCE’) and include extended textual detail for commemorative or pattern designs.

• Non-preemption and amendment. Section 4 explicitly states the specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other Determination of the specification of a coin, leaving other determinations intact. Section 5 provides for amendment of the earlier 2002 Determination via Schedule 2, which implements two specific textual substitutions.

• Commencement and temporal effect. The Determination distinguishes commencement dates among its parts. Sections 1, 2, 5 and Schedule 2 are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002; sections 3 and 4 and Schedule 1 commence on gazettal (s 2). That split timing affects when the amendments to the 2002 Determination are effective relative to the new specifications.

Together these concepts create a compact technical instrument that maps coin denominations to precise production and design parameters via coded entries, while preserving the integrity of other determinations and making narrowly circumscribed textual amendments to the previous Determination.

The Determination affects directly any party responsible for designing, producing or administering the specified coins, and indirectly affects users and operators who interact with the coins in physical form.

• The statutory maker and administrative actor. The instrument is titled a Royal Australian Mint Determination and is made by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer under subsection 13A(1) of the Currency Act 1965. The Royal Australian Mint is the evident administrative focus given the Determination’s title and the content of the schedules. Those responsible for minting and issuing coins under the authorising Act will use the schedules as the operative manufacturing and design specification.

• Manufacturers and die-makers. Parties tasked with manufacturing coins, producing dies, or otherwise fabricating physical specimens must conform to the composition, standard weight and allowable variation, diameter (or parallel-face distance), thickness, shape and edge prescriptions set out in Schedule 1, Part 1, and must apply the obverse and reverse designs described by the O and R codes in Schedule 1, Part 2. The instrument creates discrete product specifications that manufacturing processes must implement and verify.

• Operators of coin-handling equipment. The Determination establishes precise physical parameters (weight, diameter, thickness, shape and edge). Entities that rely on such parameters to accept, sort or validate coins,cash-handling businesses, vending machine operators, counting and sorting machine manufacturers,will need to align equipment specifications and calibration to the coins as specified to ensure accurate handling. The Determination itself does not mandate reconfiguration but provides the design data those operators must reference.

• Government record-keepers and cataloguers. Agencies responsible for documenting official coinage, public collections, or mint output will need to reflect the multiple coin types per denomination and the specific inscriptions and motifs set out by the instrument. The instrument also amends the prior 2002 Determination in two text spots, which affects official records of that earlier Determination (Schedule 2).

• Collectors and numismatic markets. The schedule describes multiple variants of the same face value with different compositions and designs (for example several $1 entries, silver and base-metal types, and gold/Port Phillip Pattern obverses for bullion sizes). Those differences create discrete collectible variants, and the Determination supplies the authoritative physical and design descriptions upon which provenance and variant classification rely.

• Legal and compliance advisers. Lawyers, compliance officers and advisers working on matters touching coin manufacture, supply contracts, or disputes about compliance with official specifications will treat the Determination as the authoritative source for the listed coins’ physical and design features. The instrument does not, within its text, attach penalties or enforcement provisions; advisers will need to cross-reference the authorising Act and other instruments if enforcement or sanctions are relevant.

• The public at large. Because the Determination specifies the appearance and physical characteristics of coins that will circulate or be offered to the public (e.g. commemorative issues represented by R311, R310 and R315), the general public will encounter the fruits of these specifications in circulation, in sales of mint products, and in commemorative releases. The instrument itself provides the descriptive source for inscriptions and imagery.

Note on scope: section 4 explicitly states the specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other Determination of coin specification. That means other determinations that specify other coins remain in force and are not displaced by this instrument. The instrument also amends the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2002 (No. 5) by the precise substitutions in Schedule 2; those amendments are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002 (s 2).

The Determination primarily imposes prescriptive duties of specification rather than procedural duties or rights for third parties. The operative duties and entitlements derivable from the instrument are technical and administrative.

• Duty to manufacture to specification. For any coin “having the determination and standard composition specified in columns 2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 1,” the Determination prescribes the applicable standard weight, allowable variation, dimensions, shape, edge and obverse and reverse design (s 3(1); Schedule 1, Part 1). The duty for the entity deploying these specifications (for example, the Royal Australian Mint or its contractors) is to ensure minted coins match the columns’ prescribed parameters within the stated tolerances.

• Duty to interpret diameter for non-circular coins. Section 3(2) provides an interpretive duty: when measuring the diameter of a non-circular coin, operators must use the measurement that is the distance between two parallel faces of the coin’s edge. This creates a binding measurement convention for any dodecahedral or polyhedral coins (e.g. S3).

• Duty not to treat these specifications as altering other Determinations. Section 4 imposes a structural duty: the specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other Determination of the specification of a coin. Practically this means users must treat this Determination as additive rather than substitutive, and must preserve the continued force of any other separate Determination covering other coins.

• Duty to implement amendments to the 2002 Determination. Section 5 and Schedule 2 operate to amend the prior Determination in the precise ways set out (Schedule 2, items [1] and [2]); entities maintaining official records, catalogues or manufacturing control documents that referenced the earlier text must adopt these textual substitutions. The commencement clause treats these amendments as commencing on 23 October 2002 (s 2(a)), so record-keeping must reflect that temporal effect.

• Rights of specification clarity. The Determination grants those using the schedule an authoritative entitlement to rely on these textual specifications for the listed coins. The Part 2 glossary gives exact textual descriptions for each symbol used in Part 1, giving a clear, single-source description for shapes, edges and the obverse/reverse designs (Schedule 1, Part 2).

• No express enforcement or penalty powers within the Determination. The instrument itself does not set out penalties or enforcement regimes; it operates by specifying standards. Entities seeking remedies or enforcement would need to look to the parent Act (the Currency Act 1965) or other laws, because the Determination contains no express sanctioning provisions.

• Rights to design content. The obverse and reverse design descriptions include inscriptions and iconography that are specified textually (for example O32’s effigy and inscriptions, O34-O36’s Port Phillip Pattern and gold-weight inscriptions, and R311’s volunteer-group motif and wording). These textual prescriptions confer an entitlement to use that exact form when producing an obverse or reverse for the listed item.

In short, the Determination creates binding technical obligations to produce coins matching the listed material, mass and dimensional specifications and to render the obverse and reverse artwork as described. It does not itself create standalone enforcement clauses or subordinate regulatory processes; any compliance enforcement would depend on the broader statutory framework.

The Determination contains no express penalties, infringement schedules, or enforcement mechanisms within its own text. Its operative content is specification and amendment rather than sanction.

• No internal penalty provisions. Neither the body of the Determination nor the Schedules sets out fines, civil penalties, criminal offences, inspection powers or administrative enforcement procedures. The instrument’s functions are confined to prescribing technical coin specifications (s 3 and Schedule 1) and amending a prior Determination (s 5 and Schedule 2).

• Authorising statute referenced but not operationalised in text. The Determination is made under subsection 13A(1) of the Currency Act 1965 (recited at the head of the instrument). The Act is the legal source of power to make such Determinations, but the instrument does not reproduce any enforcement provisions of the Act or spell out how the Act’s enforcement powers operate with respect to failure to meet the prescribed specifications. Any penalty or enforcement mechanism would therefore need to be sought in the Currency Act 1965 itself or other applicable statutes; the Determination does not provide the text of those mechanisms.

• Practical enforcement pathway implied by specification. Although the instrument does not specify enforcement steps, the practical consequences of non-conformance are self-evident from context: coins not matching the specifications would not conform to the official, published Determination and so would not be the legally prescribed design/specification for those items. That practical effect may have administrative consequences for the issuing authority or contractual consequences under procurement or manufacturing agreements, but such consequences are not codified in the Determination.

• Amendments and retroactivity. Section 2 treats certain sections and Schedule 2 as having commenced on 23 October 2002, while other sections commence on gazettal. Those temporal rules could have compliance implications because Schedule 2 changes to the 2002 Determination are effectively backdated; the Determination does not specify enforcement measures for failure to implement those textual amendments retrospectively.

• No inspection or certification regime set out. The instrument prescribes specifications numerically and textually but does not create an inspection, certification or approval bureaucracy within its terms. Any such regime,quality control, testing, or certification,would need to be implemented under the parent Act, internal Mint policy, or procurement contracts.

When advising on enforcement or penalties, practitioners should not look to this Determination for sanctioning language; the instrument must be read in conjunction with the Currency Act 1965 and any other statutory or administrative provisions that confer powers to penalise or seek remedies for non-compliant coin production or distribution.

The Determination is an instrument under the Currency Act 1965 and interacts with other determinations and, implicitly, with administrative practice and coin-issuing machinery.

• Authority under the Currency Act 1965. The instrument is expressly made under subsection 13A(1) of the Currency Act 1965 (recited at the start of the instrument). That gives the Determination its legal source. The Determination itself does not restate other provisions of the Act; readers must consult the Currency Act 1965 for the statutory framework that enables issuance, enforcement, or wider legal effects.

• Non-preemption of other determinations. Section 4 is explicit: the specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other Determination of the specification of a coin. That creates a normative rule of coexistence: this Determination sits alongside other determinations specifying coin characteristics, and it does not operate to repeal, amend or supersede other specifications except where this instrument expressly amends the 2002 Determination via Schedule 2 (s 5).

• Amendment of a prior Determination. Section 5 states Schedule 2 amends the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2002 (No. 5). Schedule 2 contains two textual amendments: (1) in Schedule 1, Part 2, item 208, column 4, omit “ONE DOLLAR” and insert “1 DOLLAR”; and (2) in Schedule 2, Part 2, item 209, column 4, omit “AUSTRALIAN” and insert “AUSTRALIA’S”. These narrow textual edits alter the earlier instrument’s descriptive text. The 2002 Determination as amended must be read together with this Determination for a complete understanding of coin specifications previously governed by the 2002 instrument.

• Temporal interaction via commencement. Section 2 assigns different commencement dates to parts of this Determination. Sections 1, 2 and 5 and Schedule 2 are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002, while sections 3 and 4 and Schedule 1 commence on gazettal. Consequently, the textual amendments to the 2002 Determination are treated as effective from 23 October 2002, whereas the new specifications in Schedule 1 only take effect on gazettal. That staging interacts with any statutory or administrative actions taken in the intervening period and is relevant to interpreting which specifications applied at particular times.

• No express cross-reference to other statutes within the instrument. The Determination does not cite other statutes beyond the authorising provision; it does not, for example, reference laws on trademark, copyright or cultural heritage. Any interaction with other statutory regimes (for example, intellectual property rights in designs, or laws governing inscriptions and royal imagery) must be established by consulting those statutes directly. The Determination’s obverse and reverse textual prescriptions (e.g. effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, monogram ‘IRB’, specific inscriptions) will interact with any statutory regimes that regulate the use and depiction of royal effigies or national symbols, but those interactions are not addressed inside this Determination.

• Administrative interactions. In practice, the Determination will be an input to administrative processes: Mint die design, procurement contracts, mint quality assurance testing, and public catalogues. Those procedures are not set out in the Determination but must align with it. The determination’s explicit non-effect on other determinations means that administrative actors must reconcile multiple instruments when producing coinage or updating records.

For legal certainty, practitioners should read this Determination alongside the Currency Act 1965 and any other Determinations purporting to specify coin characteristics, plus any internal Mint or Treasury procedural instruments that operationalise manufacture, quality assurance and issuance.

This instrument both creates new specifications and amends a prior Determination. The amendment history evident from the instrument is compact and explicit.

• This Determination: name and signature. The instrument identifies itself as the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2003 (No. 2) (s 1) and bears the signature block of IAN CAMPBELL, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, dated 8 April 2003.

• Commencement staging. Section 2 sets out commencement: sections 1, 2 and 5 and Schedule 2 are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002; sections 3 and 4 and Schedule 1 commence on gazettal. That creates an internal temporal sequencing in which the amendments to the prior Determination are treated as backdated to 23 October 2002 while the detailed new specifications only become operative on the date of gazettal.

• Amendment to the 2002 Determination. Section 5 declares that Schedule 2 amends the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2002 (No. 5). Schedule 2 provides the specific textual substitutions. Two discrete edits are made:

  1. Schedule 2 [1] targets Schedule 1, Part 2, item 208, column 4 of the 2002 Determination: it omits “ONE DOLLAR” and inserts “1 DOLLAR”. This is a straightforward typographical or formatting change to the inscription text in that earlier instrument.

  2. Schedule 2 [2] targets Schedule 2, Part 2, item 209, column 4 of the 2002 Determination: it omits “AUSTRALIAN” and inserts “AUSTRALIA’S”. Again, this alters the wording of the inscription or descriptive text in the earlier Determination.

• Relationship of 2003 Determination to 2002 instrument. The 2003 Determination adds new detailed specifications in its own Schedule 1 for a series of coins (items 101-111 as printed), while expressly leaving other Determinations unaffected (s 4). The 2003 Determination thus both supplements the corpus of Determinations and implements narrow textual corrections in the 2002 Determination.

• No other amendments recorded in this text. The instrument does not purport to repeal the 2002 Determination or make broader changes beyond the two textual substitutions and the additions contained in Schedule 1. The instrument’s amendment history as recorded within the document is therefore limited to these discrete edits plus the addition of the new specifications.

• Dating and administrative record. The instrument bears a date of 8 April 2003 and specifies the parts treated as commencing on 23 October 2002. Those dates are the primary temporal metadata for any historical tracing of when particular textual forms and technical specifications were in effect.

Practitioners researching historical specifications or reconciling catalogue entries should therefore note both the specific textual substitutions in Schedule 2 and the different commencement timings for the instrument’s parts.

The Determination text contains no record of litigation, judicial interpretation, or case citations. The instrument itself lists no court decisions and no challenge history is recorded in the printed document.

• No cases or disputes referenced. The Determination does not name any judicial decisions, does not annex legal opinions, and includes no material suggesting prior litigation about these specifications. The Part 2 descriptions and Schedule 2 amendments are presented as technical prescriptions and editorial corrections without annotated legal history.

• Practical effect for advisers. Because the instrument includes no litigation history, practitioners seeking precedential guidance or judicial interpretation of these specific specifications will need to look beyond this instrument to case law concerning the Currency Act 1965, coin determinations generally, or to administrative records and public law decisions involving coin specification disputes. The Determination does not provide such material.

• Absence of declaratory or contested material within the instrument. The text is descriptive and technical, and the lack of litigation history in the instrument reflects that it functions primarily as a specification matrix and minor-amendment instrument rather than as the product of contested administrative action recorded in the text.

• Research implication. Any litigation history relevant to these coins, their manufacture, or their legal status is not contained in the Determination and must be established from independent legal research in trials, appeals, tribunal records, or administrative correspondence. The instrument itself provides no internal pointers to such material.

In short, this Determination contains no litigation history; counsel and researchers must seek judicial or tribunal materials outside the instrument where litigation questions are relevant.

The Determination is short, technical and generally precise, but there are items and structural features that can cause confusion or operational oversight if not noticed.

• Multiple entries for identical denominations. The schedule includes multiple items bearing the same face value but different compositions and specifications. For example, $1 appears as item 105 (not less than 99.9% silver, weight 11.66 g ±0.24, O32/R309), item 107 (copper, aluminium and nickel, weight 9.00 g ±0.28, O32/R315), and item 108 (not less than 99.9% silver, weight 13.36 g ±0.30, O34/R316). Similarly, $2 appears as items 106 and 109 with differing weights and dimensions. Those multiple entries create coexisting coin types with the same denomination. Users must not assume a single uniform physical specification per denomination; the Determination itself differentiates multiple distinct specimens per face value.

• Identical weights across different denominations. Items 110 ($5) and 111 ($10) are both specified as 36.31 g ±0.64 with diameter 38.90 mm and thickness 3.50 mm (Schedule 1, Part 1). The presence of identical physical parameters for different face values is a peculiar detail that must be read literally from the schedule when reconciling mass/dimension data. It raises a record-keeping requirement: designers and catalogue compilers must rely on the O and R design codes to distinguish denomination when mass/size coincide.

• Shape interpretation rule. Section 3(2) provides a particular measurement rule for non-circular coins: diameter is to be read as the distance between two parallel faces of the edge. For coins coded S3 (Dodecahedral), the diameter measurement for compliance or quality control must use that parallel-face measure rather than a circumscribed circle or other metric. Failure to use the s 3(2) definition could yield inconsistent measurement outcomes.

• Edge code complexities. Edge codes include segmented edges (E2 = 8 segments with 4 milled and 4 plain; E3 = 14 segments with 7 milled and 7 plain). Those segmented-edge definitions must be implemented precisely in tooling. Contracting or production documents that merely state “milled” or “reeded” are insufficient; the instrument requires the precise segment count and pattern.

• Obverse and reverse textual prescriptions. The design descriptions include detailed text inscriptions and motifs (for example O34-O36 include Port Phillip Pattern language and gold-weight inscriptions such as ‘ONE OUNCE’, O37 includes the inscription ‘TEN DOLLARS’, R311 includes the inscription ‘AUSTRALIA’S VOLUNTEERS - MAKING A DIFFERENCE’). These textual details must be exactly replicated on dies and in official descriptions. The Schedule 2 amendments that alter textual wording in the 2002 Determination (changing “ONE DOLLAR” to “1 DOLLAR” and “AUSTRALIAN” to “AUSTRALIA’S”) show how minor wording differences are treated as formal amendments; record-keepers must mirror these precise strings.

• Precision of tolerances. Weight is given with allowable variation to two decimal places in some cases; thickness and diameter are given to two decimal places in millimetres. Contract specifications, quality control tests and acceptance criteria must therefore employ suitably precise measurement equipment and tolerancing regimes.

• No penalty text. The instrument does not set enforcement procedures for deviation from these specs. That gap does not negate the specifications’ authoritative nature, but it does require producers and purchasers to coordinate contractual remedies or rely on the parent Act if enforcement is needed.

• Commencement timing. Sections 1, 2 and 5 and Schedule 2 are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002 while Schedule 1 and ss 3-4 commence on gazettal. When reconstructing which specification ruled at a given historical date, practitioners must account for this staging. It is possible to misattribute a specification to the wrong time if the distinction is overlooked.

• Code reading requirement. Part 1’s use of code numbers for obverse and reverse (for instance O32, R309) means that any user must cross-reference Part 2 to obtain the textual design specification. Failure to consult Part 2 could lead to incomplete understanding of the required inscriptions or imagery.

Noticing these specific details and codified rules is necessary to avoid operational errors in manufacture, record-keeping, cataloguing, procurement, or compliance assessment.

Compliance, in the context of this Determination, means ensuring that any coin produced or represented as matching one of the listed items conforms to the composition, mass, dimensional and design prescriptions in Schedule 1 and that the textual amendments to the 2002 Determination in Schedule 2 are reflected in records. The Determination itself supplies the precise parameters that compliance processes must use.

Actionable steps

1. Read the instrument and map items to production lines. For each intended coin issue, identify the item number in Schedule 1, Part 1 and extract the composition (Column 3), standard weight and allowable variation (Column 4), diameter and thickness (Column 5), shape and edge codes and obverse/reverse codes (Column 6). Do not assume a single specification per face value; use the item number as the binding identifier (s 3(1); Schedule 1, Part 1).

2. Cross-reference design codes. For every O and R code referenced in Part 1, consult Schedule 1, Part 2 to obtain the full textual description of obverse and reverse elements (Schedule 1, Part 2). That includes inscriptions, motifs (such as Port Phillip Pattern elements), and the exact wording of inscriptions (for example ‘ELIZABETH II’, ‘AUSTRALIA 2003’, ‘ONE OUNCE’, ‘AUSTRALIA’S VOLUNTEERS - MAKING A DIFFERENCE’). Use those textual prescriptions when preparing die artwork and official collateral.

3. Apply the non-circular diameter rule where relevant. For coins with a non-circular shape code (for example S3, Dodecahedral), measure diameter as “the distance between two parallel faces of the edge” per s 3(2). Ensure measurement protocols and fixtures are designed accordingly.

4. Implement weight and dimensional tolerance regimes. Use the standard weight and allowable variation figures in Column 4 as acceptance criteria for production batches. Calibrate scales and gauges to the required decimal precision and ensure thickness and diameter are measured to the same order of accuracy. Document acceptance thresholds and rejected-batch procedures.

5. Reconcile edge patterns exactly. Edge codes E2 and E3 specify segmented patterns (8 and 14 segments respectively), including counts of milled versus plain segments. Specify these counts in tooling drawings, and verify them in quality inspection protocols.

6. Update records to reflect Schedule 2 amendments. The Determination amends the 2002 Determination by two textual substitutions (Schedule 2). Where organisational records, catalogues or databases contain the prior wording, update the entries to the new strings: replace “ONE DOLLAR” with “1 DOLLAR” in the relevant place, and replace “AUSTRALIAN” with “AUSTRALIA’S” at the specified location (Schedule 2 [1] and [2]). Remember these amendments are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002 (s 2).

7. Preserve other Determinations. Section 4 states the specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other Determination of coin specification. When consolidating authoritative specifications, maintain a catalogue that includes this Determination plus any other determinations that remain in force; do not treat this instrument as a comprehensive repeal of other instruments.

8. Quality-control documentation and procurement clauses. Draft production contracts and internal quality control documents to cite the specific Schedule 1 item numbers, the composition language, the exact weight tolerances, the shape/edge codes and the O/R codes. Incorporate inspection, measurement methodology, and acceptance criteria consistent with the Determination’s numeric tolerances. Because the Determination contains no express enforcement provisions, incorporate contractual remedies and warranty provisions for non-conforming production.

9. Communicate to downstream users and machine operators. Inform vending-machine manufacturers, cash-handling operators, banks and other users of the precise physical parameters for the new coins, noting the presence of multiple variants per denomination and any identical-size coins across denominations (for example the $5 and $10 items sharing mass and size). Update technical bulletins and machine calibration guides accordingly.

10. Archive authoritative versions with date awareness. Keep records that reflect the instrument’s commencement regime. Archive the pre- and post-amendment forms where historically relevant and annotate which parts are taken to have commenced on 23 October 2002 versus on gazettal (s 2).

Checklist for legal/compliance review

• Confirm manufacturing specs match Schedule 1, Part 1 item-by-item.
• Ensure die designs match Schedule 1, Part 2 O and R textual descriptions exactly.
• Verify measurement methodology for non-circular coins per s 3(2).
• Calibrate measurement equipment to the precision indicated by mass and dimension figures.
• Update prior Determination records consistent with Schedule 2 textual substitutions and apply the 23 October 2002 commencement date for those amendments.
• Maintain a catalogue of all relevant Determinations, recognising s 4’s instruction that other Determinations remain unaffected.
• Explicitly document contractual remedies for non-conformance because the Determination contains no penalty provisions.

Following these steps will align production, record-keeping and downstream communications with the Determination’s technical and textual requirements. Where enforcement or statutory penalties are a concern, consult the Currency Act 1965 and other relevant statutory instruments or administrative policies, because this Determination itself contains no enforcement language.