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Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act
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2. Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by the insertion of the following definitions:
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“ ‘authorised assay office’ means—
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(a) an assay office situate outside the State established by the Company in accordance with section 4A, or
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(b) an assay office situate outside the State that is party to an agreement with the Company under section 4B;
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‘forged hallmark’ means a hallmark, stamp or other mark struck on or otherwise applied to an article of precious metal that—
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(a) purports to be—
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(i) an approved hallmark and is not an approved hallmark, or
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(ii) a mark referred to in Regulation 3(d) of the Regulations of 2001 and is not such a mark,
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or
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(b) falsely represents the standard of fineness of the article of precious metal;
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‘multi-metal article’ means an article comprised of 2 separate metals, one of which is precious metal or an alloy of precious metal, and the other of which is non-precious metal;
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‘non-precious metal’ means any metal other than—
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(a) gold, silver, palladium or platinum, or
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(b) alloys of gold, silver, palladium or platinum;
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‘offshore hallmark’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1)(aa);
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‘precious metal’ means gold, silver, palladium or platinum;
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‘Regulations of 2001’ means the European Communities (Hallmarking of Articles Imported from Other Member States) Regulations 2001 (No. 579 of 2001);”,
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(b) in the definition of “articles of precious metal”, by the substitution of “a single precious metal or alloy of precious metal or 2 or more separate precious metals or alloys of precious metal” for “gold, silver or platinum or alloys of gold, silver or platinum”, and
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(c) by the deletion of the definitions of “the Act of 1913” and “forgery”.
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