Time Period: 1937-

Timeline

• 25.03.1937
• Ordinance [Gilbert and Ellice Islands Currency, No. 1] on the adoption of the Australian currency; effective 25.09.1937 (by Order in Council [British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (Currency), No. 627] of 01.07.1937].
  - Amended by ordinance [Gilbert and Ellice Islands Currency (Amendment), No. 8] of ??.??.1937.
• 1942-1943
• Nominal abolition of the Australian currency and replacement by the Japanese Military Yen on the occupied northern Gilbert Islands; probably without practical consequences.
• ??.??.1966
• Ordinance [Gilbert and Ellice Islands Currency (Amendment), No. 6] on the adoption of the Australian decimalization; effective 14.02.1966 (?)
• ??.??.1975
• Ordinance [Gilbert Islands Currency, No. 15], confirming the Australian currency after the separation from the Ellice Islands; effective 01.01.1976 (?)
• ??.??.1977
• Law [Currency Ordinance, Cap. 20], confirming the Australian currency and allowing for the issuance of local subsidiary coins, establishing the Minister of Finance and Economic Development as Currency Commissioner "ex officio"; effective immediately (?)
• 14.05.1979
• Ordinance [Currency (Legal Tender of Coinage) (Amendment), No. 3] on the legal tender status of the local subsidiary coinage; effective immediately