1. These Regulations may be cited as the Precious Metals Marking Regulations.

2. In these Regulations, “Act” means the Precious Metals Marking Act.

3. Every article sold to a dealer who is outside Canada is exempt from the application of the Act.

4. The parts of an article that are exempt from assay for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations are

• (a) any mechanism, movement or works, where the article consists of a case or cover containing or incorporating the mechanism, movement or works;

• (b) brooch pins, brooch joints and brooch catches on

  • (i) gold or silver insignia pins, or

  • (ii) any article to which a quality mark specified in Column I of item 1, 2 or 4 of the table to section 7 may be applied;

• (c) where the article is an article to which a quality mark specified in Column I of item 1 or 2 of the tables to sections 6, 8 and 9 or in Column I of item 1, 2 or 4 of the table to section 7 may be applied, the following parts thereof:

  • (i) springs, winding bars, sleeves, crown cores, joint pins, screws, rivets, dust bands, movement rings and spring pins,

  • (ii) hat pin stems and sockets,

  • (iii) scarf pin, stick pin and collar tack clutchbacks,

  • (iv) bracelet tongues,

  • (v) locket bezels,

  • (vi) knife skeletons and blades,

  • (vii) lapel button backs and the posts to which they are attached,

  • (viii) earring setting posts, and

  • (ix) tubes and posts for attachment to drilled stones together with any attached collet or claw setting; and

• (d) where the article is a spectacle frame to which a quality mark specified in the table to section 10 may be applied, the following parts thereof:

  • (i) pad posts,

  • (ii) cores and inner winding of comfort cable temples,

  • (iii) any part permanently encased in a non-metallic covering, and

  • (iv) hinge assemblies.

• 5. (1) Subject to subsections 10(1), 11(6) and 12(1), a quality mark may be applied to a precious metal article by any method.

• (2) Where a quality mark is stamped, branded, engraved or imprinted on a precious metal article, a trade mark that is applied to that article pursuant to subsection 4(3) of the Act shall be applied by the same method as the quality mark.

• (3) Where only part of an article is composed of a precious metal plating of a quality specified in section 7, 8 or 9 and a quality mark is applied to the article, the name of the part to which the quality mark is applicable shall be applied immediately before or after the mark.

• (4) Where a statement of the thickness of the precious metal is expressed as a whole numeral and followed immediately by the word “micrometres”, or the symbol, “vm” the word “micron”, or the symbol “v” may be substituted therefor.