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PROCLAMATION
No. 1 of 1978
BY HIS EXCELLENCY SIR CRAWFORD MURRAY MACLEHOSE, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire,
Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hong
Kong and its Dependencies.
WHEREAS a new One Dollar Piece has been coined for the
Colony of Hong Kong:
AND WHEREAS by Article 4 of the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order
1936 as amended by the Hong Kong (Coinage) (Amendment) Order 1975
(hereinafter together referred to as "the 1936 Order as amended
by the 1975 Order") it is provided (inter alia) that if any
new coins of copper, nickel, cupro-nickel or other mixed metal
of denominations of not less than one dollar are coined they
shall, from a date fixed by the Governor in a Proclamation made
with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
and a Secretary of State setting forth in a Schedule particulars
of the metal, standard weight and remedy allowance, and provided
that they have not been dealt with in any manner prohibited
by law, be legal tender for payment of an amount not exceeding
one hundred dollars:
NOW THEREFORE I, CRAWFORD MURRAY MACLEHOSE, pursuant to
the said Article 4 of the 1936 Order as amended by the 1975 Order
and with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury and of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
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