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Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1983

COOK ISLANDS

DECIMAL CURRENCY AMENDMENT ACT 1983

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Legal Tender
3. Schedule

1983, No. 4

An Act to Amend the Decimal Currency Act 1964

(16 December 1983

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1983 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Decimal Currency Act 1964 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act").

2. Legal Tender

Paragraph (a) of sub section (1) of Section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting after the words "ten dollars" (as inserted by Section 2 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1978) and before the words "twenty five dollars" (as inserted by Section 2 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1976 (No.2) ) the words "twenty dollars,".

3. Schedule

The Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by -

(a) inserting in the column headed "Denomination of Coin" after the words. "Twenty Five dollars" (as inserted by paragraph (a) of Section 3 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1976 (No. 2) ) and before the words "Ten dollars" (as inserted by paragraph (a) of Section 3 of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1978 the words:

• "Twenty dollars"

(b) inserting in the column headed "Standard Composition" so as to correspond to the words inserted.by paragraph (a) of this section the word:

• "Silver"
  

This Act is administered by the Treasury Department,

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer - 1983.