British Hallmarking Council

The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) is the organisation responsible for supervising hallmarking in the United Kingdom. It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).

The BHC was created under the Hallmarking Act 1973 to oversee the activities of the four remaining assay offices (located in London, Birmingham, Sheffield and Edinburgh). The costs of its operations are met entirely by the four offices.^[1]

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Permanent Secretaries	Gareth Davies Crawford Falconer
Directors General	David Bickerton Amanda Brooks Joanna Crellin Caleb Deeks Beatrice Kilroy-Nolan Gavin Lambert Andrew Mitchell Bidesh Sarkar (interim) Ceri Smith
Departmental Chief Scientific Adviser	Julia Sutcliffe

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Advisory	Low Pay Commission Regulatory Policy Committee
Tribunal	Central Arbitration Committee Competition Appeal Tribunal

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Tribunal	Central Arbitration Committee Competition Appeal Tribunal Copyright Tribunal

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