An Act to enable Her Majesty to declare Gold Coins to be issued from Her Majesty's Branch Mint at Sydney, New South Wales, a legal Tender for Payments; and for other Purposes relating thereto.
WHEREAS by an Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, Chapter Sixty-eight, intituled An Act to provide for new Silver Coinage, and to regulate the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coins of this Realm, it is amongst other things provided, that after the Date of the passing of that Act the Gold Coin of the Realm should be the only legal Tender for Payments (except the Silver Coin of the Realm to the Extent of Forty Shillings) within the United Kingdom ...