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This Determination is the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2008 (No. 8).
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This Determination adds a Five dollar coin to the Currency Act schedule and sets its standard composition as “not less than 99.9% silver and 23ct gold.” Schedule 1 (referenced by the Determination) supplies the coin’s weight, allowable variation, dimensions and design. It takes effect the day after registration and mechanically defines what the Royal Australian Mint may produce and how that coin will be specified for legal‑tender and market purposes.
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This Determination is the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2008 (No. 8).
This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.
In this Determination:
Act means the Currency Act 1965.
(1) For paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act, the Act has effect, on and after the day on which this Determination commences, as if: (a) there were included in the Schedule to the Act, a reference to the denomination ‘Five dollars’; and (b) there were specified in the Schedule, opposite to that denomination, as the standard composition of coins of that denomination, the standard composition ‘not less than 99.9% silver and 23ct gold’. (2) Subsection (1) does not affect any other determination made under paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act.
For subsection 13A(1) of the Act, each item in Schedule 1 specifies, for a coin having the denomination and standard composition mentioned in the item: (a) the coin’s standard weight; and (b) the allowable variation from that standard weight; and (c) the coin’s dimensions; and (d) the coin’s design.
The specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other determination of the specifications of a coin.
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This Determination is the Currency (Royal Australian Mint) Determination 2008 (No. 8).
This Determination commences on the day after it is registered.
In this Determination:
Act means the Currency Act 1965.
(1) For paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act, the Act has effect, on and after the day on which this Determination commences, as if: (a) there were included in the Schedule to the Act, a reference to the denomination ‘Five dollars’; and (b) there were specified in the Schedule, opposite to that denomination, as the standard composition of coins of that denomination, the standard composition ‘not less than 99.9% silver and 23ct gold’. (2) Subsection (1) does not affect any other determination made under paragraph 13(2)(b) of the Act.
For subsection 13A(1) of the Act, each item in Schedule 1 specifies, for a coin having the denomination and standard composition mentioned in the item: (a) the coin’s standard weight; and (b) the allowable variation from that standard weight; and (c) the coin’s dimensions; and (d) the coin’s design.
The specifications in Schedule 1 do not affect any other determination of the specifications of a coin.