Precious Metals Marking Act

Marginal note:Regulations

9 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) designating articles that are exempt, conditionally or unconditionally, from the application of this Act;

• (b) designating parts of articles that are exempt, conditionally or unconditionally, from assay for the purposes of this Act;

• (c) designating any metal and any alloy thereof to be a precious metal for the purposes of this Act;

• (d) designating quality marks that may be applied to plated articles and quality marks that may be applied to other precious metal articles;

• (e) prescribing marks indicating the nature of the base metal content of a plated article and prescribing the circumstances in which the use of those marks is required;

• (f) establishing minimum precious metal content and quality standards and precious metal quality tolerances in respect of precious metal articles to which quality marks may be applied;

• (g) prescribing the methods by which quality marks and trademarks may be applied to precious metal articles;

• (h) prescribing the meaning to be attributed to quality marks designated pursuant to paragraph (d); and

• (i) with respect to any other matter concerning which he deems regulations necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act.