The Native Coinage Act 1876, 9 of 1876, (Rep., Act 36 of 1957)

Section 3. Subject to the provisions of section four, the Governor General in Council may, from time to time, b

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3. Subject to the provisions of section four, the Governor General in Council may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare that a tender of payment of money, if made in the coins, or the coins of any specified metal, made under this Act for any Native State, shall be a legal tender in British India; and the provisions of the Indian Coinage Act, 1870, shall apply to the coins to which such notification refers, so far as such provisions are applicable thereto, and save as expressly provided by such notification.

Source: India Code