JISM Testing Fees on Precious Metals

  Control Instructions on Precious Metals
 

 JISM Testing Fees on Precious Metals

Instruction No. 6 / 2004

Gold, Silver and Platinum jewelry Assaying and Hallmarking Fees

Issued according to the article no. 27 of the Jordanian Institution

 for Standards and Metrology’s law no. 22/ 2000

First: Manufactured Gold jewelry Assaying and Hallmarking Fees:

1.      100 one hundred for hallmarking each gram of manufactured gold jewelry.

2.      30 thirty Fils for hallmarking each gram of manufactured silver jewelry.

3.      100 one hundred Fils for hallmarking each gram of manufactured platinum jewelry.

Any jewelry have manufacturing fees considered as manufactured jewelry.

 Second:  five dinars for assaying samples represent manufactured gold intended for exportation, unless their owner asked to hallmark them.

 Third:  five dinars for assaying samples represent imported manufactured gold that not subjected to hallmarking.

 Fourth:  Three Dinars for assaying any manufactured sample.

 Fifth: Un manufactured jewelry in the form of granular or powder considered as one ingots. 

 Sixth: Gold, Silver and Platinum ingots assaying fees.

 1-     Gold Ingots 

2- Silver Ingots

  3- Platinum Ingots

Seventh: these instructions delete any previous instructions conflict with there content.

Eighth: These instructions are applied at 1/1/2002.

Control Instructions on Precious metals

Instructions (6) year 2004
Supervision instruction of golden jewelry  

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Issued in accordance of items (21) of standard and  metrology law number (22) year 2000

Section one

Article (1): these instructions are called (the instruction of golden jewelry) and it is workable since the time of publishing in official journal.

Article (2): the words and phrases stated in these instructions have its special meaning unless the context showed difference.

Trader: is the natural or artificial person that sells or buys the golden jewel.

Manufacturer: is the natural or artificial person who manufactures the jewelries or trades them

Precious Stone: it is natural stones obtained from land such as emerald, corundum, and diamond. Added it natural pearls.

Semiprecious stone: it is a natural stone obtained from land such as emerald, corundum, and diamond. Added to it planted pearls and natural coral.

Manufactured precious stones it is a man made stones had the same chemical contains.

Counterfeiter stones: it is manufactured products made of glass or other materials to look like pearls and coral.

Section (2): Selling and buying golden jewelry

Article (3): it’s not probable to buy or sell golden jewelry unless it has the institution hallmark.

Article (4): it is not probable to the goldsmith to deal with shaping workshops unless they were listed and have a trademark.

Article (5): it is illegal to sell jewelry out side the legal gallery or even to use the help of the distributors unless they work for the gallery or won it.

Article (6): it is a must that all dealers  must use a clear list to show the prices of all gold measures.

Article (7): in the case of selling a golden jewelry that contains a precious stone the weights of the stone should be excluded if it weights more than 2 grams.

Article (8): the selling bill should contain the following information in detail. The weight in the measure of grams and its parts even the parts of hundred-percent. The measure of the gold, the date, the price of grams, the whole price of the jewelry and the fees each in details.

Article (9): the gold smiting considered responsible of the quality of the jewelry that has his hall mark and dealer is considered responsible of the jewelry that does not has a hallmark or has an unreal one.

Article (10): the existence of the institutions hallmarks is considered as a guarantee to the buyer from the gold mish, the dealer, and the exporter, the institution is not responsible about any misapplying from the godmothers or the dealers to these rules.

Section (3): Smiting the golden jewelry

Article(11): if the golden jewelry were rings or bracelets it should not contain more than one place of mending.

Article (12): it is a must that all golden jewelry that have more than one joined parts or mended parts have the same measure of gold and the substance used to mend.

Article (13): it is a must to smith the complete ounce by using a gold measure out of 999.9 that weights 31.1 grams.

Article (14): the smiting of rashadi lira and the English lira should be  from 21 measure that weights 7,8 grams in order.

Section (4): Hallmarking the golden jewelry

Article (15): it is a must that the dealer should present his jewelry having his own hallmark.

Article (16): it is a must that the dealer should enclose a statement of the gold measure, weight, and kind of the jewelry he wants to hallmark.

Article (17): the jewelry information should be complete before hallmarking it unless some formatting is needed and the institution agreement should be considered.

Article (18): the national jewelry are hallmarked according to the gold dealer statement of measure but if the russet of testing was not identical to it, the gold will be smashed and send back to the dealer with the bill of hallmarking.

Article (19): the imported jewelry are tested before hallmarking and if they failed the dealer will be asked even to smash them or export them and he will be asked to bay the fees of testing.

Article (20): it is not probable to change or adjust the jewelry after hallmarking them in away that makes them in identical to the measure the were hallmarked by.

Article (21):  Jewelries advanced with local and imported gem stones are to be hall marked.

Section (5): Buying and selling scales

Article (22): buying and selling scales must be:

1.                  the scale should be in a cage that product in form electronically current.
2.                  the scale should be the specially one to measure the precious metal.
3.                  the scale should be applying to the Jordanian standard number (911) year 1992. And its adjusting.
4.                  The scale should be able to seal and labeling the production after adjusting.

Section (6): Sanction

Article (23): every one who disobeys these instructions will be punished by the law of the standers and measuring institution number (22) year 2000.

Section (7): Sanctions

Article (24): these instructions cancel the instructions number (5) year 1996.