Amendments to the Hallmarking Act 19735
After section 4 insert—
4AAssay office carrying on business outside the United Kingdom
1
This Act applies with the following modifications in relation to business carried on outside the United Kingdom by an assay office.
2
Subsection (1) of section 4 has effect as if for “shall be struck” there were substituted “may be struck” and as if for paragraph (a)(i) there were substituted—
i
the mark approved by the Council for use outside the United Kingdom by the assay office;
3
Schedule 2 has effect as if—
a
paragraph 1 were omitted;
b
in paragraph 7(a) for “assay office mark”, there were substituted “mark approved for use outside the United Kingdom by the assay office pursuant to section 4(1)(a)(i),”;
c
in paragraph 10(3) and (4)(c) for “assay office mark” there were substituted “mark mentioned in paragraph 7(a)”; and
d
paragraph 15(b) were omitted.
4
Schedule 5 has effect as if in paragraph 2(1) for “the assay office shall examine” there were substituted “the assay office may examine”.