Decimal Currency Act 1965 (Tas)

Decimal Currency Act 1965

An Act to revise the law of the State in consequence of the adoption of decimal currency in Australia and to make provision for matters incidental thereto [Royal Assent 22 December 1965]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Decimal Currency Act 1965 .

2. Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – appointed day means the fourteenth day of February 1966; Commonwealth Act means the Currency Act 1965 of the Commonwealth, and includes that Act as amended from time to time and any Commonwealth Act passed in substitution therefor; industrial award means any determination, award, order, regulation, by-law, or other instrument made or issued under an Act and having the effect of fixing, determining, or prescribing the amounts or rates of remuneration to be paid to employees or any class of employees (including employees of the Crown) in any trade, business, profession, calling, undertaking, or institution; new currency means the currency provided for by the Commonwealth Act ; old currency means the currency provided for by the Coinage Act 1909-1947 of the Commonwealth; provision, used in relation to an Act or statutory instrument, means any Part, Division, subdivision, section, subsection, regulation, sub-regulation, by-law, rule, sub-rule, paragraph, sub-paragraph, clause, sub-clause, schedule, appendix, form, or other portion of the Act or instrument, but does not include any portion of an Act or statutory instrument in which there is contained or set forth a copy of an agreement or arrangement or proposed agreement or arrangement or any heads of agreement to be embodied in a proposed agreement or arrangement; statutory instrument includes – (a) an instrument that is a statutory rule within the meaning of the Rules Publication Act 1953 ; (b) an instrument having effect by virtue of any regulation, by-law, rule, proclamation, order-in-council, order, or other instrument made, issued, or granted under the authority of an Act; and (c) any other instrument (whether of a legislative character or not) that is made, issued, or granted under the authority of an Act, or in the exercise of the prerogative rights of the Crown, whether by the Governor or by any other person. (2) Nothing in this Act applies to or in relation to the construction of, or affects the operation of – (a) an industrial award; (b) a judgment or order given or made by any court, judge, police magistrate, or justice in criminal or civil proceedings; or (c) an award made on a request for a dispute to be referred to arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration Act 2011 .