Whereas under section 3(1)(cd) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to provide for the variation from the standard weight of coins to be made at Our Mint, and to alter any Proclamation previously made under the said section:

And Whereas by Our Proclamation dated the fourteenth day of October 2020 We determined, among other matters, a variation from the standard weight of coins of the denomination of five pounds in silver:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new variation for the said silver coins:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(cd) and (h) and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf, do hereby, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, proclaim, direct and ordain as follows:

1. In paragraph 7(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the fourteenth day of October 2020, for ‘0.195 grammes’ there shall be substituted ‘1.1 grammes’.

2. This Proclamation shall come into force on the eleventh day of March Two thousand and twenty-one.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, this tenth day of March in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty-one and in the seventieth year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN