COINAGE ACT, 1950 (1950_act_32) | IE

ISB Act 1950-12-27

Schedule 1 COINAGE ACT, 1950 Open official source

FIRST SCHEDULE. Enactments Repealed.

Enactments Repealed.

Section 4.

Session and Chapter or Number and Year

Short Title

Extent of Repeal

(1)

(2)

(3)

10 & 11 Geo. V., c. 70

The Gold and Silver (Export Control, & c.) Act, 1920

The whole Act.

No. 14 of 1926

The Coinage Act, 1926

The whole Act.

No. 32 of 1927

The Currency Act, 1927

Subsection (2) of section 4; subsection (1) of section 38.

No. 22 of 1942

The Central Bank Act, 1942

Part VIII.

ISB Act 1950-12-27

Schedule 2 COINAGE ACT, 1950 Open official source

SECOND SCHEDULE. Particulars of cupro-nickel and bronze coins.

Particulars of cupro-nickel and bronze coins.

Section 5.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Denomination of Coin

Standard Weight

Standard Composition

Fractional value in relation to the Irish pound

Remedy Allowance (applicable to tests of 1,000 pieces in bulk)

Imperial weight grains

Metric weight grams

Proportion of weight

Composition

Cupro-nickel Coins

Half-crown

21818181

1413795

}

75 per cent. copper and 25 per cent. nickel.

}

one-eighth

1 in 180

}

1 per cent.

Florin

17454545

1131036

one-tenth

1 in 175

Shilling

8727272

565518

one-twentieth

1 in 150

Sixpence

7000000

453593

one-fortieth

1 in 125

Threepence

5000000

323995

one-eightieth

1 in 100

Bronze Coins

Penny

14583333

944984

}

Mixed metal made up of copper, tin and zinc.

}

one-two hundred and fortieth

1 in 40

}

1 per cent.

Halfpenny

8750000

566990

one-four hundred and eightieth

1 in 40

Farthing

4375000

283495

one-nine hundred and sixtieth

1 in 40

ISB Act 1950-12-27

Schedule 3 COINAGE ACT, 1950 Open official source

THIRD SCHEDULE. Enactments Applied or Adapted.

Enactments Applied or Adapted.

Section 16.

Chapter and Session or Number and Year

Short title

Application or Adaptation

(1)

(2)

(3)

24 & 25 Vic., c. 99.

The Coinage Offences Act, 1861.

The said Act shall Apply to coins issued under the repealed enactments or this Act, and for the purposes of such application—

(a) the references, in section 1 of the first-mentioned Act, to coin or any particular class of coin lawfully current by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions shall be construed as including references to coins lawfully current in the State by virtue of this Act,

(b) the references in the said section 1 to silver coin shall be construed as including references to nickel coin, cupro-nickel coin and coin provided under section 6 of this Act.

39 & 40 Vic., c. 36.

The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876.

Section 42 shall have effect as if the following articles were added to the Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Inwards in that section—

(a) counterfeits of coins issued under the repealed enactments or this Act,

(b) any coins or money purporting to be coins issued under the repealed enactments but not being of the standard weight or not being of the standard fineness prescribed by the Act of 1926, as amended by the Act of 1942,

(c) any coins or money purporting to be coins provided under section 5 or 6 of this Act and not being of the standard weight or not being of the standard composition prescribed by the said section 5 or 6 (as the case may be).

52 & 53 Vic., c. 42.

The Revenue Act, 1889.

Section 2 shall apply to imitations of coins issued under the repealed purposes of such application the reference in subsection (4) of that section to coins lawfully current by virtue of a proclamation or otherwise in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions shall be construed as including a reference to coins lawfully current in the state by virtue of this Act.

No. 32 of 1927

The Currency Act, 1927.

In section 10 the reference to the Coinage Act, 1926, shall be construed as a reference to this Act.

COINAGE ACT, 1950

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