British Hallmarking Council

The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) is the organisation responsible for supervising hallmarking in the United Kingdom. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

The BHC was created under the Hallmarking Act 1973 to oversee the activities of the four remaining assay offices (located in London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Edinburgh). The costs of its operations are met entirely by the four offices.^[1]

References

↑ "What we do". gov.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2014.

External links

British Hallmarking Council website

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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