Merchandise Marks Act, 1931
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Prosecutions by Minister for Agriculture. |
31.—(1) The Minister for Agriculture may, subject to the prescribed conditions being complied with, undertake as prosecutor the prosecution of any offence under the Principal Act or any offence under this Act in cases which appear to him to relate to agricultural produce or to the produce of any other rural industries and to affect the general interests of the country or a section of the community or of a trade or of an industry. | |
(2) In this section the expression “rural industries” means the rural industries mentioned in section 2 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931). | ||
(3) In this section the word “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister for Agriculture under this section. | ||
(4) Nothing in this section shall operate to limit the powers conferred on the Minister for Industry and Commerce by the immediately preceding section, in so far as those powers are concurrent with the powers conferred on the Minister for Agriculture by this section, and nothing in this section or the immediately preceding section shall operate to affect the power of any person (other than the said Ministers) to prosecute in respect of any offences under the Principal Act or any offence under this Act. |