Whereas under section 3(1)(cc) and (h) of the Coinage Act 1971 We have power, with the advice of Our Privy Council, by Proclamation to determine the weight and composition of coins other than gold coins or coins of silver of Our Maundy money, and the remedy to be allowed in the making of such coins, and to alter any Proclamation previously made under the said section:

And Whereas by Our Proclamations dated the eleventh day of November 2020 and the twenty-eighth day of April 2021 We determined, among other matters, the specifications and designs for a new series of coins of the denomination of five pounds in fine proof silver and five pounds in silver:

And Whereas it appears to Us desirable to determine a new variation from the standard weight for the said five pound fine proof silver and five pound coins:

We, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 3(1)(cc) 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 9(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the eleventh day of November 2020, for ‘a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin of 0.195 grammes;’ there shall be substituted: ‘a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin of 1.1 grammes;’.

2. In paragraph 7(2)(a) of Our said Proclamation of the twenty-eighth day of April 2021, for ‘a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin of 0.195 grammes;’ there shall be substituted: ‘a variation from the said standard weight of an amount per coin of 1.1 grammes;’.

3. This Proclamation shall come into force on the twelfth day of May Two thousand and twenty-two.

Given at Our Court at Windsor Castle, this eleventh day of May in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and twenty-two and in the seventy-first year of Our Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN