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Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1978

COOK ISLANDS

DECIMAL CURRENCY AMENDMENT ACT 1978

ANALYSIS

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1. Short Title
2. Legal Tender
3. Schedule

1978, No. 3

An Act to amend the Decimal Currency Act 1964

(21 April 1978

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 1978 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 inserting after the words "seven and one half dollars" and before the words "twenty five dollars" (as inserted by section 2 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1976) the words "ten dollars".

3. Schedule

The Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by -

(a) Inserting in the column headed "Denomination of Coin" after the words "twenty five dollars" (as inserted by paragraph (a) section 3 of of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1976) and 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:

• "Ten dollars"

(b) Inserting in the column headed "Standard Composition" after the words "Silver and Copper" (as inserted by paragraph (b) of section 3 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1976) and corresponding to the words inserted by paragraph (a) of this section the following words:

• "Silver and Copper".

This Act in administered in the Treasury.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the Authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer- 1978.