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DECIMAL CURRENCY ACT 1965 - SECT 7

7 .         References to new currency

        (1)         Where in any provision of a law of the State an amount of money in terms of the old currency is expressed in tabular, columnar or other similar form under or in relation to all or any of the words, “pounds, shillings and pence” or to all or any of the symbols “£ s d”, or any word or symbols of like import, the word “dollars” or a symbol denoting that denomination of money in the new currency shall be substituted for that word or words or symbol or symbols in the appropriate position, and that provision shall, if necessary, be amended to the necessary extent accordingly.

        (2)         Where after the appointed day a reference to an amount of money in terms of the new currency is expressed in figures in a law of the State, that reference shall denote the amount of money by a symbol denoting the dollar followed by such figures expressing that amount of money as are appropriate to the particular case, and any such reference may be so denoted in accordance with the recommendations as to notation in the new currency set out in the Third Schedule.



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