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Legal tender.
Repeals.
Repeal not retrospective.
Definitions.
Short title.
Commencement of order.
COINAGE ORDERS IN COUNCIL
4. (1) A tender of payment of money in the Colony, if made in the standard coin or in any coins specified in the 2nd or 3rd schedule to this Order, shall, if the coins have not been dealt with in any manner prohibited by law, and if of silver have not become diminished in weight by wear or otherwise, so as to be of less weight than the weight in that behalf specified in the schedule to this Order as the least current weight, be a legal tender-
(a) in the case of dollars, for the payment of any amount.
(b) in the case of the other silver coins, for the payment of an amount not exceeding two dollars, but for no greater amount;
(c) in the case of coins of copper or mixed metal, for the payment of an amount not exceeding one dollar, but for no greater amount.
(2) Each coin shall be a legal tender only for the amount of its denomination.
(3) If any new coins are coined, this article shall, after the date fixed by the Governor in a proclamation made with the approval of the Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State setting forth in a schedule the same particulars with respect to each coin as are set forth in the 3rd schedule to this Order, apply to the new coins as if the schedule to the proclamation were added to that 3rd schedule.
5. On the commencement of this Order the laws specified in the 4th schedule to this Order and all other laws regulating legal tender in the Colony shall cease to be in force.
6. Nothing in this Order, nor any repeal of law by this Order, shall affect any liability incurred, made, or other thing done before the commencement of this Order.
7. In this Order,-
The expression "Governor" means the Governor of the Colony, and includes the officer for the time being administering the Government of the Colony.
The expression "Secretary of State" means one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.
Words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular.
8. This Order may be cited as the Hongkong (Coinage) Order, 1895.
9. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of April 1895 or any earlier day on which it is proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor, and that day is in this Order referred to as the commencement of the Order.
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