Decimal Currency Act 1965 (NSW)

Decimal Currency Act 1965 No 33

An Act to provide for the interpretation, amendment and operation of laws of New South Wales where necessary or desirable in consequence of the enactment of the Currency Act 1965 of the Commonwealth of Australia; and for purposes connected therewith.

1 Name of Act, citation and commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Decimal Currency Act 1965. (2) This Act, sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 excepted, shall commence upon the day upon which it receives the Royal assent. (3) Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 shall commence upon the appointed day.

2 Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires: Appointed day means the day upon which Part II of the Commonwealth Act commences. Commonwealth Act means the Currency Act 1965 of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and includes any Act passed in amendment of or substitution for that Act. Decimal currency means the currency provided for by Part II of the Commonwealth Act. Law of the State means: (a) a law in force in New South Wales on the appointed day, or (b) a law passed or made before the appointed day that comes into force in New South Wales on or after the appointed day, to which the Commonwealth Act does not extend. Old currency means the currency provided for by the Acts repealed by the Commonwealth Act. Special law means this Act and: (a) a law of the State: (i) that it is not competent for the legislature of New South Wales to amend, (ii) in respect of which the State of New South Wales has agreed to make no amendment without the concurrence of the Commonwealth of Australia, (iii) in respect of which any amendment would be required to be reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon, (iv) that is an amending provision (within the meaning of the Reprints Act 1972), (v) that, being a provision of an Act, has been amended otherwise than by an amending provision (within the meaning of the Reprints Act 1972), (vi) that is an award made or an industrial agreement filed under the provisions of the Industrial Arbitration Act 1940, as amended by subsequent Acts, (b) that part of a law of the State that is a copy of an agreement or arrangement or proposed agreement or arrangement or that sets forth any matter to be embodied in a proposed agreement or arrangement, (c) an Act specified in the first column of the Second Schedule, to the extent specified opposite that Act in the second column of that Schedule, (d) a law of the State embodied in an Appropriation Act, a Supply Act, a General Loan Account Appropriation Act or an Act that authorises the raising of a specific loan, (e) any provision of an Act imposing, increasing, reducing or suspending rates of: (i) income tax, (ii) income and wages tax, (iii) unemployment relief tax, (iv) social services tax, or (v) family endowment tax, (f) a Private Act, (g) a law of the State that is an Imperial Act. (2) In the Schedules to this Act, a reference to an Act means that Act, as amended by subsequent Acts other than this Act. (3) For the purposes of this Act, the equivalent in decimal currency of an amount of money in old currency shall be calculated on the basis specified in subsection (4) of section 8 of the Commonwealth Act.