Hallmarking Act 1973 (c. 43)

[F1 4A Assay office carrying on business outside the United Kingdom U.K.

(1) This Act applies with the following modifications in relation to business carried on outside the United Kingdom by an assay office.

(2) Subsection (1) of section 4 has effect as if for “shall be struck” there were substituted “may be struck” and as if for paragraph (a)(i) there were substituted—

“(i) the mark approved by the Council for use outside the United Kingdom by the assay office;”.

(3) Schedule 2 has effect as if—

(a) paragraph 1 were omitted;

(b) in paragraph 7(a) for “assay office mark”, there were substituted “mark approved for use outside the United Kingdom by the assay office pursuant to section 4(1)(a)(i),”;

(c) in paragraph 10(3) and (4)(c) for “assay office mark” there were substituted “mark mentioned in paragraph 7(a)”; and

(d) paragraph 15(b) were omitted.

(4) Schedule 5 has effect as if in paragraph 2(1) for “the assay office shall examine” there were substituted “the assay office may examine”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 4A inserted (8.2.2013) by The Legislative Reform (Hallmarking) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/251), arts. 1(2), 5