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Plate, of gold and silver. The duties were repealed by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, s. 10. The hall-marking of foreign plate is prescribed by ss. 59, 60 of the (English) Customs Act, 1842, as amended by the Hall-marking of Foreign Plate Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 6), which directs that foreign plate when brought to be assayed and stamped, as it has to be by revenue law, must be marked so as to distinguish it as foreign, and that every person bringing it to an assay office, unless it be in charge of a revenue officer, must state in writing whether it was bought in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or was imported from foreign parts. Watch-cases imported from foreign parts before 1st June, 1907, are exempted from assay by the Assay of Imported Watch-Cases (Existing Stocks Exemption) Act, 1907. As to the meaning of 'plate' in ss. 2, 6 of the Plate (Offences) Act, 1738, and other statutes, see Faberge v. Goldsmiths' Co., (1911) 1 Ch 286. Gold watches which are jewelled and set in gold chain-bracelets are not exempt from being hall-marked (ibid.).

It includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer, negative, duplicate equipment or other device used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliance by which sound recording for the acoustic presentation of the work are or are intended to be made. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2 (t)]