1950_SEIZURE_OF_PROHIBITED_GOODS_REGULATIONS — Page 2

Merchandise Marks.

shall be prohibited to be imported, and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Director of Commerce and Industry, hereinafter called the Director, may direct;

And whereas by section 16 of the Ordinance, after authorizing the continued use of trade descriptions lawfully and generally applied to goods of a parti- cular class, or manufactured by a particular method, to indicate such class or method, it is provided that, where such trade description includes the name of a place or country calculated to mislead as to where the goods were actually made or produced, such goods not having been actually made or produced there, the said reciting section should not apply (and, consequently, goods so marked would be pro- hibited) unless there is added to the trade descrip- tion, immediately before or after the name of the place or country, in an equally conspicuous manner with that name, the name of the place or country in which the goods were actually made or produced, with a statement that they were made or produced there;

And whereas it is also provided by the said section 14 that the Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations, either general or special, respect- ing the detention and forfeiture of goods the importation of which is prohibited as hereinbefore mentioned, and the conditions, if any, to be fulfilled before such detention and forfeiture, and may by such regulations determine the information, notices. and security to be given, and the evidence requisite for any of the purposes of the said section, and the mode of verification of such evidence ;

And it is further provided by the said section-

that before detaining goods or taking proceedings with a view to the forfeiture thereof under the law relating to the Ordinance, the Director may require that such regulations as aforesaid shall be complied with, and satisfy himself as to the liability of the goods to forfeiture;

that such regulations may apply to all goods, the importation of which is prohibited by the said section, or different regulations may be made respect- ing different classes of such goods;

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