The Reserve Bank of Fiji is encouraging people to start returning the $2 and $5 banknotes to a bank near them.
Governor Barry Whiteside said that the $2 banknotes will cease to be a legal tender from 31st March this year.
He said the new green $5 banknotes will be issued from 1st April 2013.
Whiteside said the $5 brown coloured banknotes will cease to be legal tender from 30th June this year and after these dates, only the RBF in Suva will give value for the old $2 and $5 banknotes.
He said all the other denomination notes will continue to be legal tender.
Whiteside said that shops should not refuse acceptance of any old design banknotes as they are still legal tender.
He said that the people should report the names of the shops refusing the notes to the Reserve Bank.
Story by: Sneh Chaudhry
