At the Court at Buckingham Palace
PRESENT
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
IN COUNCIL
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1. This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong (Coinage) (Amendment) No2 Order 197 and shall come into operation on the day on which it is proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor.
2. In this Order, "the principal Order" means the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order 1936(a).
Article 2 of the principal Order shall be amended to read as follows:
The Governor may with the approval of the Commissioners of Our Treasury and a Secretary of State at any time declare by Proclamation that any coin shall cease to be legal tender as from a date to be specified in Proclamation and 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 not be 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the date upon which such British dollars cease to be legal tender in the Colony the British Dollar Order 1895 shall be repealed.
(a) Rev. IV, P.570 (1936-11.p.3710)
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