Wedding Rings Act, 1855
WEDDING RINGS ACT 1855 | ||
C A P. LX. | ||
An Act for excepting Gold Wedding Rings from the Operation of the Act of the last Session relating to the Standard of Gold and Silver Wares, and from the Exemptions contained in other Acts relating to Gold Wares. [23d July 1855.] | ||
17 & 18 Vict. c. 96. | ||
‘Whereas an Act was passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty the now Queen, intituled An Act for allowing Gold Wares to be manufactured at a lower Standard than that now allowed by Law, and to amend the Law relating to the assaying of Gold and Silver Wares, thereby it is, amongst other things, enacted, that if any of the Gold Wares which by any Statute how in force are not liable to be assayed and marked shall nevertheless be assayed and marked as of One of the Standards authorized by Law, such Wares shall not by reason thereof be chargeable with the Duty now levied on Gold Plate: And whereas by certain Statutes now in force no Gold Rings, except Mourning Rings, are liable to be assayed and marked, but Gold Wedding Rings have nevertheless been assayed and marked: And whereas it is expedient that Gold Wedding Rings should be made liable to the Provisions of the Statutes now in force relating to the assaying and marking of Gold Plate:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: |