Sale of hallmarked jewellery without six-digit unique ID number prohibited after March 31: Govt

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has prohibited sale of hallmarked gold jewellery or gold artefacts without the six-digit alphanumeric hallmark unique identification number (HUID) after March 31, 2023.

The transfer introduced on Saturday by the federal government, is geared toward defending customers and enhancing their confidence in buy of hallmarked gold jewellery.

Official sources mentioned that it could guarantee traceability and guarantee high quality in gold jewellery.

Consumers can test and authenticate hallmarked gold jewellery objects with HUID number utilizing the “confirm HUID” in ‘BID CARE’ app.

The app supplies info of the jeweller who obtained the article hallmarked, their registration number, purity of the article, kind of article in addition to particulars of hallmarking centre which take a look at and hallmarked the article.

Using this info a typical client can confirm the article being bought by matching it with article kind in addition to it is purity.

Government on the identical time has nonetheless notified that hallmarked jewellery mendacity with customers as per outdated schemes will stay legitimate.

As per part 49 of BIS Rules, 2018, in case hallmarked jewellery purchased by the buyer is discovered to be of lesser purity than that marked on the jewellery, then the client or buyer should be entitled for compensation which can be two instances the quantity of distinction calculated on the premise of scarcity of purity for the load of such article bought and the testing prices.

(With inputs from IANS)