The act also gave the British government the authority to establish overseas branches of the Mint in British possessions.[6] In 1907, the government used that power to establish a branch of the Mint in Ottawa, at the request of the Canadian government.[7] It repealed the authorization in 1931, when the Mint in Ottawa came under full Canadian control.[8]
A contemporary history suggests that the act was influenced by the criticisms of George Frederick Ansell.[9]
^Challis, C. E. A new history of the royal mint (1992), quoted in Ansell, George Frederick (1826–1880), chemist and assayer by W. P. Courtney, rev. Robert Brown, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.