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APPENDIX.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 27TH DAY of October, 1936.

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.

WHEREAS by virtue of the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1895, certain silver dollars and other silver coins and coins of copper or mixed metal are legal tender in Our Colony of Hong Kong (in this Ünder referred to as "the Colony');

AND WHEREAS it appears Lo Us by the advice of Our Privy Council that it is expedient to repeal the said Order in Council and to make fresh provision respecting the coins which are to constitute legal tender in the Colony:

NOW THEREFORE, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, and by virtue of all powers yested in Us in that behalf do hereby ordain and enact as follows :

1. Each of the several onins 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 Pro- clamaton shall have been issued under Article 2 of this Order providing dat auch coin shall no longer be legal tender.

2. The Governor may with the approval of the Com- missioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State at any time declare by Proclamation 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 sneh date; provided that in the case of British dollars the date upon which such eníng are to cease to be legal tender shall be not earlier than three months after the date of the Proclams- tion; and as from the date upon which such British dollors cease to be legal tender in the Colony the British Dollar Order, 1896, shall be repealed.

3-(1) If the Glovernor 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 thore new coing 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.

4.-1) If any new coins are coined they shall, from a 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 particulars of the metal, standard weight, remedy allowance and, in the cuse of silver coins, fineness, and provided that they have not been dealt with in any manner prohibited by law, be legal tender in the case of coins of denominations of not less than one dollar for the payment of an amount tol exceeding one hundred dollars, anil in the case of coing of other denomina- tions for the payment of an amount not exceeding two dollars.

(2) Each coin shall be a legal tender only for the amount of its denomination.

(3) A coin shall be deemed to have been dealt with in a manner prohibited by law where the coin has been impaired, diminished or lightened otherwise than by fair wear and tear, or has been defaced by having any name, word op mark stamped or engraved thereon (whether the coin has or has not been thereby diminished or lightened) or by cutting, punching or chopping in any way whatever.

(4) Any coin which has been dealt with in a manner prohibited by law may be called in, out, broken or defaced under the authority of the Governor, in accordance with such regulations as the Governor may make.

5. The Hong Kong (Chinage) Order, 1895, and the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1916, are hereby repealed.

6. The Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, as amended by any subsequent Ordinance, applies to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of any Ordinance or enactment in force in the Colony.

7. This Order may be cited as "The Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1930.**

8. This Order shall come into operation on the day on which it is proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.

AND the Lords Commissioners of Our Treasury and the Right Honourable W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the requisite directions herein accordingly.

M. P. A. HANKEY.