Coinage Act, 1926

JurisdictionIreland
CitationIR No. 14/1926
Year1926


Number 14 of 1926.


COINAGE ACT, 1926.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Definition.

2.

Provision and issue of silver, nickel, and bronze coins.

3.

Calling in of coins issued under this Act.

4.

Prohibition of other coins or tokens.

5.

Legal tender in silver, nickel, or bronze coins.

6.

Termination of legal tender in British silver or bronze coins.

7.

Currency in which contracts, etc., are to be made.

8.

Application of certain enactments.

9.

General power of prescription.

10.

Publication and commencement of orders.

11.

Expenses and proceeds of issue of coins.

12.

Repeal.

13.

Short title.

SCHEDULE


Number 14 of 1926.


COINAGE ACT, 1926.


AN ACT TO AUTHORISE THE PROVISION AND ISSUE OF A SILVER, NICKEL, AND BRONZE TOKEN COINAGE, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF SUCH COINAGE AND FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH. [13th April, 1926.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

Definition.

1.—In this Act the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Finance.

Provision and issue of silver, nickel, and bronze coins.

2.—(1) The Minister may provide and issue silver, nickel, and bronze coins of the several denominations specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act, and may take such steps for the provision and issue of such coins as he shall think proper.

(2) Every coin issued under this Act shall be of the standard weight and the standard fineness specified in respect thereof in the second and third columns respectively of the Schedule to this Act, but there shall be allowed in respect of all such coins the remedy (or variation from the standard weight or the standard fineness) stated in respect thereof respectively in the fifth column of the Schedule to this Act.

(3) The several denominations of coins issued under this Act shall respectively bear to the sovereign the fractional values stated in the fourth column of the Schedule to this Act.

(4) The Minister may by order prescribe the dimensions and design of the several denominations of coins to be issued under this Act and every coin issued under this Act shall be of the dimensions and design so prescribed in respect thereof.

Calling in of coins issued under this Act.

3.—The Minister may by order call in coins of any particular date or denomination issued under this Act.

Prohibition of other coins or tokens.

4.—(1) Save and except coins issued by the Minister under and in accordance with this Act, no piece of silver, nickel, copper, or bronze, or of any other metal or mixed metal of any value whatsoever shall be made or issued in Saorstát Eireann as a coin or a token for money or as purporting that the holder thereof is entitled to demand any value denoted thereon.

(2) Every person who shall make or issue any piece of metal or of mixed metal in contravention of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

Legal tender in silver, nickel, or bronze coins.

5.—(1) A tender of payment of money if made either in silver or bronze coins issued by the Minister under this Act and not called in under this Act or partly in such coins and partly in British coins or wholly in British coins shall be a legal tender, in the case of silver coins for a payment of an amount not exceeding forty shillings but for no greater amount and in the case of bronze coins for a payment of an amount not exceeding one shilling but for no greater amount.

(2) A tender of payment of money if made in nickel coins issued by the Minister under this Act and not called in under this Act shall be a legal tender for a payment of an amount not exceeding five shillings but for no greater amount.

(3) In this section the expression “British coins” means silver or bronze coins issued under the Coinage Acts, 1870 to 1920 in the late United Kingdom or in Great Britain and neither called in under those Acts in the late United Kingdom or in Great Britain nor declared by order under this Act to have ceased to be legal tender.

Termination of legal tender in British silver or bronze coins.

6.—The Executive Council may by order prescribe a date after which silver coins of all or any specified denominations issued under the Coinage Acts, 1870 to 1920 in the late United Kingdom or in Great Britain or bronze coins of all or any specified denominations similarly issued shall cease to be legal tender either generally or for any particular purposes specified therein and whenever any such order is made the coins to which it applies shall cease to be legal tender in accordance with such order.

Currency in which contracts, etc., are to be made.

7.—Every contract, sale, payment, bill, note, instrument, and security for money, and every transaction, dealing, matter, and thing whatever relating to money or involving the payment of or the liability to pay any money which is made, executed, entered into, done, or had shall be made, executed, entered into, done, and had according to the coins which are current and legal tender under the Coinage Acts, 1870 to 1920 (so far as not repealed by this Act) or this Act and not otherwise, unless the same be made, executed, entered into, done, or had according to the currency of some state or country other than Saorstát Eireann.

Application of certain enactments.

8.—(1) The Coinage Offences Act, 1861 shall apply to coins issued under this Act, and...

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