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The Trial of the Pyx Order 1998

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Article 4(2)

SCHEDULE 1FORM OF WARRANT APPOINTING TIME AND PLACE OF TRIAL

We, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, hereby appoint that, in accor- dance with section 8 of the Coinage Act 1971, a trial of the pyx shall take place on at o’clock in the noon at [Goldsmiths’ Hall] in the City of London, and let a jury be summoned for the said trial, and let all proper parties have notice accordingly.

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

[Date]

Article 5(1)

SCHEDULE 2FORM OF OATH TO BE ADMINISTERED TO THE JURY

You shall well and truly, after your knowledge and discretion, make the assays of these moneys of gold, silver, gold-plated silver, cupro-nickel, nickel-brass and bimetal, and truly report if the said moneys be in weight and fineness or composition according to the standard weights for weighing and testing the coins of the realm, and the standard trial plates of gold, silver, copper, nickel and zinc in the custody of the Secretary of State and used for determining the justness of the gold, silver, gold-plated silver, cupro-nickel, nickel-brass, and bimetallic coinage of the realm, and be in conformity with the Coinage Act 1971 or any proclamation in force in pursuance of that Act; and if the diameter of such of these coins as are of cupro-nickel, nickel-brass and bimetal be in conformity with that Act or any such proclamation as aforesaid; so help you God.

Article 16

SCHEDULE 3REVOCATIONS

Orders revokedReferences
The Trial of the Pyx Order 1975S.I. 1975/2192
The Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 1978S.I. 1978/185
The Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 1980S.I. 1980/1967
The Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 1983S.I. 1983/612
The Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 1990S.I. 1990/1201
The Trial of the Pyx (Amendment) Order 1998S.I. 1998/264

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