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Merchandise Marks.

and also that the regulations may provide for the informant reimbursing the Director all expenses and damages incurred in respect of any detention made on such information and of any proceedings conse- quent on such detention;

Now, therefore, the Governor in Council under and by virtue of the hereinbefore recited power in that behalf doth hereby make and require to be complied with the following regulations-

1. Whenever the Director shall have reasonable cause for believing or shall be informed by any private person as hereinafter mentioned that goods prohibited to be imported as hereinbefore recited, having applied to them forged trade marks, false trade descriptions or marks, names, or descrip- tions otherwise illegal, are in or upon any ship, junk or boat of any description in the waters of the Colony or are in or upon any wharf, godown or premises in the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Director or any officer deputed by him to enter such ship, junk, boat, wharf, godown or premises and seize and detain any such suspected goods and then and there or at such other time as may be convenient to inspect and examine the same and for that purpose to order them to be removed to or detained in such place as he may deter- mine Provided always that if any private person with a view to the detention of any such goods shall give informa- tion to the Director, he shall in such information comply with the following conditions-

:

(a) he shall give to the Director notice in writing

stating-

(i) the number of packages of such goods, as far as he is able to state the same;

(ii) the description of the goods by marks or other particulars sufficient for their identification;

(iii) the value of the goods;

(iv) the name or other sufficient indication of the ship or wharf or other place wherein the goods are suspected to be;

(v) the manner in which the goods infringe the Ordinance; and

(vi) if the goods are not already within the Colony, the date of the expected arrival of the goods;

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