SONG KON
Long Coinage Order, 1936.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
The 27th day of October, 1956.
Present,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Lord President.
Lord Steward.
Master of the Horse.
Lord Chamberlain.
Earl Stanhope.
Major Alexander Hardinge. Mr. Mackenzie King.
WAREAS by virtue of the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1895, certain silver dollars and other silver coins and coins of copper or ixed metal are legal tender in Our Colony of Hong Kong (in this Order referred to as the Colony "):
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AND WHEREAS it appears to Us by the advice of Our Privy Council tis expedient to repeal the said Order in Council and to ake fresh provision respecting the coins which are to constitute
gal tender in the Colony:
NOW, THEREFORE, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers vested in Us in that behalf do hereby ordain and enact as follows:-
1. Each of the several coins specified in the Schedule to this Order shall be legal tender in the Colony to the extent stated in that Schedule in respect of each coin until a Proclamation shall have been issued under Article 2 of this Order providing that such coin shall no longer be legal tender.
2. The Governor may with the approval of the Commissioners of Treasury and a Secretary of State at any time declare by Padanation that all or any of the coins referred to in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be legal tender as from a date to be specified in the Proclamation and such coins shall accordingly cease to be legal tender as from such date; provided that in the case of British dollars the date upon which such coins are to cease to be legal tender shall be not earlier than three months after the date of the Proclamation; and as from the date upon which such British dollars cease to be legal tender in the Colony the British Dollar Order, 1895, shall be repealed.
3.—(1) If the Governor at any time requests, that any new coins of any denomination whether of silver, copper, nickel, cupro-nickel or other mixed metal, be coined and the Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State approve such request those new coins may be so coined under the direction of the Master of Our Mint or at one of Our Mints in British India.
(2) Such new coins shall be of such design and weight and, if of silver, of such fineness, as may be approved by the Master of Our Mint and by a Secretary of State.
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