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Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 506The Hallmarking (International Convention) Order 2002(The document as of February, 2008) STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS2002 No. 506HALLMARKThe Hallmarking (International Convention) Order 2002
The Secretary of State in exercise of her powers under sections 2(1)(c), 2(3) and 21(1) of the Hallmarking Act 1973[1] (hereinafter called "the Act") hereby makes the following Order: 1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the Hallmarking (International Convention) Order 2002, and shall come into force on the 1st April 2002. (2) The Hallmarking (International Convention) Order 1976[2] is hereby revoked. 2.In this Order "the Convention" means the Convention on the Control and Marking of Articles of Precious Metals done at Vienna on 15th November 1972. 3. - (1) The following marks are designated for the purposes of section 2 of the Act as marks recognised pursuant to the Convention, that is to say -
(ii) in the case of silver, 800 or 925; and (iii) in the case of platinum, 950; (b) a mark which has been notified in accordance with the Convention as being the mark of an assay office authorised for the purposes of the Convention in the territory of a Contracting State other than the United Kingdom; (2) The Common Control Mark consists of the representation of a balance together with the number in Arabic numerals showing the standard of fineness of the article in relief on a lined background surrounded by a shield indicating the nature of the precious metal. The shields are illustrated in Part 1 of Schedule 1 hereto; and examples of the Common Control Mark are illustrated in Part II of that Schedule.
(b) as a sponsor's mark for the purposes of the Act. 5. - (1) A person submitting an article for hallmarking to an assay office in the United Kingdom authorised for the purposes of the Convention may request the assay office to strike the article with the marks specified in Article 3(1)(a) and (c) above whether or not the article bears or is to bear other approved hallmarks, and (subject to the provisions of the Act and, in particular, section 4 as having effect in the manner indicated in paragraph (2) of this Article) the assay office shall give effect to any such request; and the following provisions of this Article shall apply:
(b) subsection (1)(a)(iii) were omitted; (c) the words in subsection (1)("and, as respects all such articles" to the end of the subsection and Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Act, did not apply in relation to the Common Control Mark; (d) in subsection (2) the reference to subsection (1)(a)(iii) were omitted; (e) in subsection (3), in head (c) of the proviso to paragraph b(i) "585" were substituted for "500", and in paragraph (b)(iii), "995" were substituted for "the standard of fineness of the article"; (f) in paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Act -
(ii) the words "and in relation to any article" to the end of paragraph 4 were omitted; and (g) in Part III of Schedule 2 to the Act, for paragraph 6(b)(ii) there were substituted the following -
6. - (1) A person may submit to an assay office an article wholly or partly of silver with a written request that it be marked as being of a fineness of 830 as respects the article as a whole or its silver parts; and in such a case the following provisions of this Article shall have effect.
(b) a new sub-paragraph were added after paragraph 2(e) substituting in section 4(3)(b)(ii) of the Act "550" for "650". (3) Where a silver article is struck with the mark indicating a standard of fineness of 830 the article shall be struck with the relevant assay office mark set out below instead of the mark set out in column (2) or (3), as the case may be, of paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Act.  Patricia Hewitt Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 7th March 2002      1.Articles of precious metals  
 " "2.Articles made elsewhere  "    1.For all standards of fineness recognised by the Convention 
 1.Articles of precious metals    The distinctive mark of each office is to be found on all Official Swiss Control Marks at the place marked with a cross in the illustrations above.
(This note is not part of the Order) This Order, which is made under the Hallmarking Act 1973 revokes the earlier Hallmarking (International Convention) Order 1976 which implemented the Convention referred to in Article 2. It recognises convention hallmarks and sponsors marks applied in another convention country; and as a consequence articles bearing such marks will be hallmarked for the purposes of the Act and can therefore be described in the United Kingdom as being of the precious metal (gold, silver or platinum) of which they are made. The Order also provides for the application in the United Kingdom of similar marks which will be recognised in other convention countries. Articles of fineness of only 830 (accepted by some countries but not by the United Kingdom) may have applied to them marks appropriate to articles of that fineness, but may not be described in the United Kingdom as being of silver unless they are intended for despatch to a destination outside the United Kingdom. The Order also adds the marks of Netherlands to the list of Foreign Assay Office Marks in Schedule 2. The Order was notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC. Notes: [1] 1973 c. 43, as amended by The Hallmarking (Hallmarking Act Amendment) Regulations 1988 S.I. 1998/2978.back [2] S.I. 1976/730; as amended by S.I. 1981/559, 1983/1608, 1984/1131, 1987/1892, 1988/2286, 1995/2488 and S.I. 1998/2978.back ISBN 0 11 039452 6 -- Back --
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