Evidence coverage: 1971–1971. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
The Reserve Bank's conference paper dates introduction of the Malawi kwacha to February 1971.
C560The Malawi consolidation gives 15 February 1971 for Part III’s currency conversion, separately from Parts I–II commencing on 15 September 1970. Section 15 converts covered pound, shilling and pence references at two kwacha per pound and ten tambala per shilling, with contextual exceptions. Section 16 requires domestic-currency payments in the new unit while explicitly valuing old notes and coins for continued use; foreign-currency payments are excepted.
C621, C622, C623Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
The Reserve Bank's conference paper dates introduction of the Malawi kwacha to February 1971.
PDF p.11, exchange-rate history
The Malawi consolidation gives 15 February 1971 for Part III’s currency conversion, separately from Parts I–II commencing on 15 September 1970.
commencement table, printed p.1 / PDF p.3
Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.
Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.
Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.
Section 15 converts covered pound, shilling and pence references at two kwacha per pound and ten tambala per shilling, with contextual exceptions.
s.15(1)–(3), printed p.4
Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.
Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.
Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.
Section 16 requires domestic-currency payments in the new unit while explicitly valuing old notes and coins for continued use; foreign-currency payments are excepted.
s.16(1)–(2), printed p.5
Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.
Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.
Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.
Section 17 applies conversion to an aggregate or calculated product rather than separately to every component amount.
s.17, printed p.6
Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.
Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.
Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.
The payment table maps a former florin to twenty tambala and threepence to two and one-half tambala; decimal commencement alone does not prove old-coin extinction.
s.16 table 2, printed p.5; words checked visually; final inference editorial
Not an as-made copy: carries Fifth Revised Edition / L.R.O.1/2018 annotation.
Original commencement notices and actual cash withdrawal/redemption endpoints are still needed.
Threepence equivalent is written in words; malformed parenthetical numeral is not transcribed.