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Precious Metals Marking Act

Version of section 9 from 2019-06-21 to 2024-03-06:


Marginal note:Regulations

 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.

  • R.S., 1985, c. P-19, s. 9
  • 2014, c. 20, s. 366(E)
  • 2019, c. 29, s. 190

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