Coinage Act, 1926

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.