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The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) is the organisation responsible for supervising hallmarking in the
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
. It is a
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of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The BHC was created under the Hallmarking Act 1973 to oversee the activities of the four remaining assay offices (located in
London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
,
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,
Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...
and
Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the southern shore of t ...
). The costs of its operations are met entirely by the four offices.


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British Hallmarking Council website
{{Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Non-departmental public bodies of the United Kingdom government