Article 4 Preliminary arrangements for the trial

The Treasury shall, whenever it appears to them to be proper and convenient, but at least once in every year in which coins have been issued from the Mint, by warrant appoint a time and place for holding a trial of the pyx.

Such warrant shall be in the form set out in Schedule 1 to this Order, and shall be delivered to and received by the Queen’s Remembrancer.

The trial shall be held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London or, if from any cause it cannot be held there, at such other convenient place in the City of London as the Treasury shall appoint.

Notice in writing of the time and place of the trial shall be given by the Treasury to the proper officers of the Department of Trade and Industry requiring them to produce at the time and place specified the standard trial plates and standard weights and all other things in their possession usually produced at the trial of the pyx.

Notice in writing of the time and place of the trial shall be given by the Treasury to the Deputy Master of the Mint and to any other person whose presence at the trial shall be thought necessary.

The Treasury shall, at a convenient time before the day appointed for the trial, make a precept or request in writing addressed to the Prime Warden and Wardens of the Goldsmiths’ Company informing them of the time appointed for the trial and requesting them to summon a jury of not less than six competent freemen of the Goldsmiths’ Company or other competent persons to act as jurymen at the trial.