MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
(Department of Consumer Affairs)
ORDER
New Delhi, the 31st March, 2023
S.O. 1555(E).— In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (3) of section 14 read with sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 15, sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 16, section 17 and sub-section (2) and (3) of section 25 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 (11 of 2016), the Central Government, after consulting the Bureau of Indian Standards, is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, hereby makes the following Order, further to amend the Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts Order, 2020, namely:-
1. (1) This Order may be called the Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts (Second Amendment) Order, 2023.
(2) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts Order, 2020, in clause 2, in sub-clause (2A), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that if any person, had already given a declaration as required by the Bureau under sub-section (4) of section 18 of the Bureau of Indian Standards, Act, 2016 (11 of 2o16) declaring his old stock of Gold jewellery or Gold artefacts with old hallmarking as existed prior to 1st July 2021, such person shall be permitted to sell or display or offer to sell such declared stock of old Gold jewellery or Gold artefacts upto the 30th June 2023”.
[F. No. 6/1/2017-BIS (Part 2)]
NIDHI KHARE, Addl. Secy.
Note : The principal order was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, sub-section (ii) vide number S.O. 205 (E), dated the 15th January, 2020 and subsequently amended vide number S.O. 3513 (E), dated the 9th October, 2020, S.O. 2102 (E), dated the 1st June, 2021, S.O. 2481 (E), dated the 23rd June, 2021, S.O. 1594 (E), dated the 4th April, 2022 and S.O. 1047(E), dated the 03rd March, 2023.
