2.

Section 4 of the Act shall be amended as follows:—

(a)

after subsection (1) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1A)

The approved hallmark mentioned in subsection(1)(a)(iii) above may be omitted by an assay office as respects any article of a weight less than 4 grams, but any such omission shall not in itself render the article unhallmarked for the purposes of this Act.”;

(b)

in paragraph (a) of subsection (3), after the word “solder”, there shall be inserted the words “or adhesive”;

(c)

in proviso (c) to paragraph (b) of subsection (3), for “750” there shall be substituted the words “not less than 585 and not more than 750”; and

(d)

in paragraph (c) of subsection (3), after the words “fineness of the article” there shall be inserted the words “or adhesive”.