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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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