{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/decimal-currency-end-of-transitional-period-order-1971/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/decimal-currency-end-of-transitional-period-order-1971/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1123",
  "legislation_title": "The Decimal Currency (End of Transitional Period) Order 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/decimal-currency-end-of-transitional-period-order-1971",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order brings to an end on 31st August 1971 the transitional period under the Decimal Currency Act 1969. After the end of the transitional period all payments have to be made in the new currency, and the threepence and penny of the old currency cease to be legal tender.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1123/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:43:17.976542+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}