Coinage Act, 2011
6. Coin when a legal
tender.-
1.
The
coins issued under the authority of section 4 shall be a legal tender in
payment or on account, in case of
a. a coin of any
denomination not lower than one rupee, for any sum not exceeding one thousand
rupees;
b. a half-rupee coin,
for any sum not exceeding ten rupees;
c. any other coin, for
any sum not exceeding one rupee:
Provided that the
coin has not been defaced and has not lost weight so as to be less than such
weight as may be prescribed in its case.
1.
2.
All
new coins in the naya paisa series, designated as such under the notification
of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic
Affairs, Number S.R.O. 1120, dated the 11th May, 1956 issued prior to the
commencement of the Indian Coinage (Amendment) Act, 1964 (17 of 1964), shall
continue to be a legal tender in payment or on account, in case of,
a. a half-rupee or fifty
naye paise coin, for any sum not exceeding ten rupees;
b. any other coin, for
any sum not exceeding one rupee.