After the festivals, the wedding season has now started. During this time people buy gold jewellery. While buying gold jewelry, one should also ask for a bill with hallmarking on the commodity. It should be checked that the bill given by the shopkeeper contains important information.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) makes rules for other regulations like purity and billing of gold. According to BIS, only hallmarked jewelry should be purchased and an authentic bill must be taken from the shopkeeper. This is very important. If you face any problem or have any complaint while purchasing jewelry, it is very important to have the receipt.
According to BIS rules, the receipt of purchased jewelry should contain information about hallmarked jewelry. The receipt should contain information about the number of jewels, their different reasons, and carat information as well as hallmarks.
Name of the article in the jewelry bill, for example, suppose you have bought a ring, then the ring, its weight, what is the purity, like is it 22 carat, 18 carat, etc. Along with this, the current price of gold, making charge, hallmark charge, and GST should be included.
If any separate stone or anything else is attached to the gold jewelry, then this information also has to be given in the shopkeeper's bill. Which and how many stones are used and what is their weight?
If you have doubts about the purity of gold, BIS also provides the facility to get its purity checked. This can be tested by visiting any BIS-supported Assigning and Hallmarking Center (A&H Centre). For this, you will have to pay testing charges.
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