{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hallmarking-act-1973/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hallmarking-act-1973/schedule-1/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/43",
  "legislation_title": "Hallmarking Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hallmarking-act-1973",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 14AA and subject to the provisions of this paragraph, any article containing only one precious metal, being a metal of minimum fineness and of a weightless than that specified in the following table:\ngold\n1 gram\nsilver\n7·78 grams\nplatinum\n0·5 gram\npalladium\n1 gram.\n(2) This paragraph does not apply—\n(a) to an article which is manufactured on or after 1st January 2008, or\n(b) to an article containing materials other than precious metal, unless the article satisfies the conditions for hallmarking of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to this Act as they had effect immediately before 6th April 2007 (the date of the coming into force of the Hallmarking Act 1973 (Amendment) Regulations 2007).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Para. 12 substituted by S.I. 1982/256, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.I. 1986/1758, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 12(1) inserted (22.7.2009) by Hallmarking Act 1973 (Application to Palladium) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2040), art. 1, Sch. para. 6(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 12(2) substituted (1.10.2007) by The Hallmarking Act 1973 (Exemption) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2493), art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 12(3) repealed (1.10.2007) by The Hallmarking Act 1973 (Exemption) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2493), art. 2(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/43/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:00.472012+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}