Membership Criteria

The Diamond Guild is delighted to consider new member nominations from existing members. It has four categories of membership:

  • Retail Member – being a corporation which conducts the business of selling goods only at the retail level
  • Wholesale Member – being a corporation which manufactures jewellery and/or conducts business at the Wholesale level
  • Diamond Service Member - being a company engaged in exploration for and/or mining for and/or sale of diamonds and/or supply of instruments (including microscopes, tweezers, scales) for the use of the cutting, grading and handling of diamonds
  • Diamond Laboratory Member – being a company engaged in grading and certifying a diamond or diamonds as to the quality of each stone

The Diamond Guild has a number of criteria for membership and demands strict adherence to these criteria to ensure that all members of the DGA continue to enjoy the reputation and prestige that membership offers.

In every case all new members must be nominated and accepted by existing members.

Membership criteria include:

  • At least five consecutive years of trading in diamonds and/or diamond jewellery.
  • Compliance with comparative pricing standards recommended by the ACCC.
  • Assurance that the value and quality of all goods sold by it are both value and quality as would be accepted by all members.
  • Observance, in all respects, of the highest code of conduct promoted by the ACCC and the State and Territory fair trading agencies.
  • Acting, in every respect, bona fide with honesty and integrity in the conduct of the business.
  • Active contribution to the Diamond Guild