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WEDDING RINGS ACT 1855
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C A P. LX.
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An Act for excepting Gold Wedding Rings from the Operation of the Act of the last Session relating to the Standard of Gold and Silver Wares, and from the Exemptions contained in other Acts relating to Gold Wares. [23d July 1855.]
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17 & 18 Vict. c. 96.
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‘Whereas an Act was passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty the now Queen, intituled An Act for allowing Gold Wares to be manufactured at a lower Standard than that now allowed by Law, and to amend the Law relating to the assaying of Gold and Silver Wares, thereby it is, amongst other things, enacted, that if any of the Gold Wares which by any Statute how in force are not liable to be assayed and marked shall nevertheless be assayed and marked as of One of the Standards authorized by Law, such Wares shall not by reason thereof be chargeable with the Duty now levied on Gold Plate: And whereas by certain Statutes now in force no Gold Rings, except Mourning Rings, are liable to be assayed and marked, but Gold Wedding Rings have nevertheless been assayed and marked: And whereas it is expedient that Gold Wedding Rings should be made liable to the Provisions of the Statutes now in force relating to the assaying and marking of Gold Plate:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
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Gold Wedding Rings to be assayed and marked.
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I. From and after the passing of this Act, Gold Wedding Rings shall be assayed and marked in like Manner as Gold Plate not exempted is required by the Statutes now in force to be assayed and marked, and all the Provisions of the Statutes relating to the Manufacture or Sale of Gold Plate shall apply to Gold Wedding Rings, anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Sect. 3. of 17 & 18 Vict. c. 96. repealed.
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II. The Third Section of the Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, herein recited, is hereby repealed so far as the same might affect Gold Wedding Rings.
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Certain Companies, &c. authorized to assay and mark Gold Wares indemnified.
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III. ‘And whereas since the coming into operation of the said recited Act certain of the Companies and Corporations authorized to assay and mark Gold Wares have assayed and marked divers Gold Rings of the Standards required by Law before the passing of the said recited Act, and have upon such a saying and marking by their Officers and Servants demanded and received, for the Use of Her Majesty, the same Duty as was payable to Her Majesty in respect of the like Gold Rings when assayed and marked before the passing of the said recited Act: And whereas Doubts have been entertained whether such Demands and Receipts of such Duty were lawful:’ Be it enacted, That all such Demands and Receipts of such Duty shall be deemed and taken to have been lawful, notwithstanding the said recited Act, and that none of the said Companies or Corporations, or of their Officers or Servants, shall be liable to any Action, Suit, or other Proceeding by reason or on account of any such Demand or Receipt as aforesaid.
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