S.I. No. 255/1935 - Gold Wares (Standard of Fineness) Order, 1935.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1935. No. 255.

GOLD WARES (STANDARD OF FINENESS) ORDER, 1935.

WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 1 of the Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1854, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General of the Irish Free State upon the advice of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State by any order or orders from time to time to order that any gold vessel, plate or manufacture of gold may be wrought of any standard not being less than one third part in the whole of fine gold, to be declared in any such order, and also to approve thereby of the instrument with which gold vessels, plate and manufactures of gold shall be marked or stamped, setting forth in figures the actual fineness thereof according to the standard so declared and that every such gold vessel, plate and manufacture of gold may be wrought accordingly and that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General of the Irish Free State upon the advice aforesaid to revoke or alter from time to time any such order:

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by Section 2 of the Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1854, as so adapted, that workers or dealers in gold or silver may register their names, marks, and places of abode at the assay office of the Fraternity or Company of Goldsmiths of the City of Dublin:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONAL BUCKLEY, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, upon the advice of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and in exercise of the powers conferred by the Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1854, as adapted by or under the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling do hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Gold Wares (Standard of Fineness) Order, 1935.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. Any gold vessel, plate or manufacture of gold may be wrought of either of the following standards, that is to say—

(a) either the standard (to be known as and in this Order called the standard of fourteen carats) of five hundred and eighty-five parts of fine gold in every one thousand parts by weight in any such vessel, plate or manufacture, or

(b) the standard (to be known as and in this Order called the standard of nine carats) of three hundred and seventy-five parts of fine gold in every one thousand parts by weight in any such vessel, plate or manufacture.

4. Every gold vessel, plate or manufacture of gold shall be marked or stamped with an instrument setting forth whichever of the figures mentioned in whichever of the following paragraphs is applicable to the particular case, that is to say—

(a) in the case of any gold vessel, plate or manufacture of gold which, is of the standard of fourteen carats, with a die for stamping the figure "14" and the decimal marks ".585" in the following manner, that is to say—

and

(b) in the case of any gold vessel, plate or manufacture of gold which is of the standard of nine carats, with a die for stamping the figure "9" and the decimal marks ".375" in the following manner, that is to say—

5. Every gold vessel, plate or manufacture of gold which is marked or stamped under and in accordance with the next preceding paragraph of this Order shall also be marked or stamped with the following marks, that is to say—

(a) the mark of the worker or dealer in gold registered under the said Section 2 of the Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1854, at the assay office of the Fraternity or Company of Goldsmiths of the City of Dublin, and

(b)) a distinct variable mark or letter which denotes the year in which such vessel, plate or manufacture is made, and

(c) the mark set forth in the Schedule hereto and used by the assay office of the Fraternity or Company of Goldsmiths of the City of Dublin.

6. The Order in Council made on the 11th day of December, 1854, under the Gold and Silver Wares Act, 1854, is hereby revoked.

7. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1935.

Given under my hand and sealed with the Great Seal

of Saorstát Eireann, this 30th day of July, 1935.

DOMHNALL UA BUACHALLA,

Governor-General.

SCHEDULE HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO.

Mark of the assay office of the Fraternity or Company of Goldsmiths of the City of Dublin:

NOTE: In this Order and in the Schedule thereto the actual sizes of the dies and marks are not shewn.