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Amendment of section 12 of Principal Act
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12. Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) in subsection (4)—
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(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):
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“(b) the addition is of the same precious metal or alloy of precious metal, as the case may be, as the precious metal or alloy of precious metal of the article concerned;”,
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(ii) by the substitution, in paragraph (c), of “prescribed for the time being for the article”, for “for the time being of the article”, and
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(iii) by the substitution, in paragraph (d)(i), of “silver, 1 gram of palladium” for “silver”,
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(b) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5):
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“(5) It shall not be an offence under this section to add a coating of a thickness not exceeding 2 micrometres at any point to the whole or any part of—
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(a) an article of gold, if the coating is of gold of a fineness not less than the Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for the article,
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(b) an article of silver, if the coating is of silver of a fineness not less than the Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for the article,
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(c) an article of silver, if the coating is of gold of a fineness not less than the minimum Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for an article of gold,
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(d) an article of silver, if the coating is of palladium of a fineness not less than the minimum Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for an article of palladium,
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(e) an article of palladium, if the coating is of palladium of a fineness not less than the Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for the article,
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(f) an article of palladium, if the coating is of gold of a fineness not less than the minimum Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for an article of gold,
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(g) an article of platinum, if the coating is of platinum of a fineness not less than the Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for the article,
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(h) an article of gold, silver or palladium if the coating is of platinum of a fineness not less than the minimum Irish standard of fineness prescribed for the time being for an article of platinum,
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(i) an article of gold, silver, palladium or platinum, if the coating is of rhodium, or
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(j) an article of gold, silver, palladium or platinum, if the coating is of ruthenium.”,
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and
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(c) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7):
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“(7) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.”.
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