The Hallmarking (International Convention) Order 2002

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:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall require an assay office to strike an article with the mark specified in Article 3(1)(a) if the article already bears approved hallmarks struck in the United Kingdom which include the mark so specified.

(2) Section 4 of the Act shall have effect in relation to the striking of such specified marks as if—

(a) subsection (1)(a)(ii) required the striking on the article of the marks specified in Article 3(1)(a) (subject to the proviso in paragraph (1) of this Article), and in Article 3(1)(c), instead of the standard mark;

(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—

(i) in subparagraph (c), for the words “struck only with the standard mark for the metal of which those parts are made” there were substituted the words “ stamped or engraved with a specific designation of the metal ”;

(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—

“(ii) these materials are used for filling the handle of a knife, fork or spoon and only in such a quantity as is necessary for joining.”