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Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1975

COOK ISLANDS

DECIMAL CURRENCY AMENDMENT ACT 1975

ANALYSIS

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1. Short Title
2. Legal Tender
3. Schedule

1975, No. 7

An Act to amend the Decimal Currency Act 1964.

(5 March 1975

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1975 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Decimal Currency Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Legal Tender

Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words "or seven and one half dollars" (as inserted by Section 2 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1973 (No. 2) after the words "two and one half dollars" and before the word "for", and substituting the following words "seven and one half dollars, fifty dollars or one hundred dollars".

(a) Inserting in the column headed "denomination of coin" before the words "seven and one half dollars" (as inserted by paragraph (a) of section 3 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1973 (No.2)) the following words:

• "One hundred dollars
• Fifty dollars"; and

(b) Inserting in the column headed "Standard Composition" before the words "Silver, copper, and nickel" (as inserted by Paragraph (b) of sections 3 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1973 (No.2)) and corresponding to the words inserted by paragraph (a) of this section the following words: .

• "Gold and copper
• Silver and cupro-nickel".
  

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer 1975.