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Hong Kong Coinage.

[App. III

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THE HONG KONG (COINAGE) ORDER 1936.

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(a) 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 Order referred to as "the Colony"):

AND WHEREAS it appears to 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 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 Commis- sioners 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 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the date upon which such British dollars cease to be legal tender in the Colony the British Dollar Order 1895 shall be repealed.

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.

(a) S.R. & O. Rev. 1904, II, “Coin, Colonies", p. 46.