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This guidance is to help you know how to recognise a hallmark and who to contact about your consumer rights.
Framework documents setting out the relationship between the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and our public bodies.
The home of British Hallmarking Council on GOV.UK. We supervise the hallmarking activities of the 4 Assay Offices in the UK to ensure there is adequate provision of hallmarking within the UK.
We supervise the hallmarking activities of the 4 Assay Offices in the UK to ensure there is adequate provision of hallmarking within the UK.
Guidance for UK jewellery importers and exporters.
How to comply with hallmarking law if your business supplies items described as precious metal (gold, silver, platinum or palladium).
Information from the UK's assay offices giving guidance on the Hallmarking Act 1973.
Details of the council's members and Assay Office representatives.
All dealers supplying precious metal items must display the new version from 1 May 2020.
The notice produced by the British Hallmarking Council is available here.
First published during the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
British Hallmarking Council guidance on selling articles of precious metal on the internet, to comply with UK hallmarking legislation.
Shared Regulatory Services (SRS) won the prestigious BHC Touchstone Award, co-sponsored by the National Association of Jewellers.
Winners demonstrate support for hallmarking excellence and help to protect consumers.
Intellectual property protection specialists WRi Group win the Touchstone Special Recognition Award 2022.
Trading Standards teams can apply for the annual Touchstone Award.
Guidance for Trading Standards officers on how to enforce the hallmarking law.
The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) clarifies the legal position on marking bonded gold, rolled gold and gold plated products.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022.
Annual reports of the British Hallmarking Council.
Annual report and accounts of the British Hallmarking Council for the year ended 31 December 2014.
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