The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today announced that Gold Hallmarking
will be made mandatory across the nation from 15 January 2020.
Addressing media after the announcement, Ram Vilas Paswan said that
Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery & Artefacts is being made mandatory in
India for which a notification will be taken out by the Department of
Consumer Affairs and a period of one year will be given for
implementation to ensure that new A&H centres will be set up by
private entrepreneurs at locations where demand of Gold Jewellery and
artefacts arises ;completion of the registration process of jewellers
and one year time for retailers of jewellery to clear their existing
stocks. The Minister said that hallmarking will benefit the poor people
in villages and small towns who are not able to make out the purity of
gold they have been buying.
The
BIS (Bureau of Indian standards) Act 2016 has enabling provisions under
Section 14 & Section 16 for making hallmarking of gold jewellery
and artefacts mandatory by the Central Government. This will make it
compulsory for all the jewellers selling gold jewellery and artefacts to
register with BIS and sell only hallmarked Gold jewellery and
artefacts. The draft Quality Control Order for mandatory hallmarking of
gold jewellery and artefacts has been hosted on WTO website on 10th
October 2019 for comments for a period of 60 days.
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