Article 6 Amendments to the Hallmarking Act 1973

Section 5(5) (Alterations to hallmarked articles) is amended as follows—

(a)

after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)
an article of gold, if the coating is of platinum of not less than the minimum fineness; or”;

(b)

in paragraph (c) after “gold” insert “or platinum”; and

(c)

after paragraph (c) add—

“(cc)
an article of platinum, if the coating is of platinum of a fineness not less than the standard of fineness of the article; or”.