The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution on March 04, 2023, issued a press release prohibiting the sale of hallmarked gold jewelry or gold artifacts without a 6-digit alphanumeric Hallmark Unique Identification Number (HUID)
This aims to safeguard and protect the consumers and enhance their confidence in the purchase of hallmarked gold jewelry with traceability and assurance of quality.
The following has been stated namely: -
• The BIS has prohibited the sale of hallmarked gold jewelry or gold artifacts without 6 digits alphanumeric (HUID) after March 31, 2023
• It states that the Hallmarked jewelry lying with consumers as per old schemes shall remain valid. As per section 49 of BIS Rules, 2018 in case Hallmarked Jewellery bought by the consumer is found to be of lesser purity than that marked on the jewelry, then the buyer/customer shall be entitled to compensation which shall be two times the amount of difference calculated on the basis of shortage of purity for the weight of such article sold and the testing charges.
• It further states that the consumer can check and authenticate hallmarked gold jewelry items with HUID numbers using ‘verify HUID’ in BIS CARE app which is available on both Android as well as iOS, It provides information about the jeweler who got the article hallmarked, the registration number, purity of the article, type of article as well as details of the hallmarking center which tested and hallmarked the article, using this information a common consumer can verify the article being purchased by matching it with the article type as well as its purity.
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[Press Release ID: 1904262]
