HC Deb 25 February 1920 vol 125 c1701W
Mr. DENNIS HERBERT

asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies to state the British possessions to which the Coinage Acts, 1870 and 1891, have been applied by proclamation; and whether in any of such cases those Acts have been applied with any and, if so, what modifications?

Lieut.-Colonel AMERY

The whole of the Coinage Act, 1870, has been applied to Fiji, Sections 1 to 7, 11, 18, 20, and the Schedules of that Act, as amended by the Coinage Act of 1891, have been applied to Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, the Leeward Islands, Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Malta, and St. Helena, with some modifications as to the amount of silver coins which may be tendered. The same parts of the Act, with the exception of Section 20 and the 2nd Schedule, have been applied to the Union of South Africa and Basutoland.