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PART IV.
NATIONAL MARK FOR BUTTER.
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Establishment of national mark for butter.
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35.—(1) When and so soon as registers of trade marks and of designs have been established in Saorstát Eireann and legislation has been passed by the Oireachtas enabling Ministers to acquire and register trade marks and designs and to grant licences for the use thereof, it shall be the duty of the Minister to acquire, design, or otherwise establish a mark (in this Act called “the national mark”) of a suitable character and to register the same in such of the registers aforesaid as may be appropriate and, subject to the provisions of this Act, to grant such licences for the use thereof as may be permitted by such legislation.
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(2) Every licence for the use of the national mark shall be granted subject to the conditions (which shall be expressed in the licence) that the national mark shall only be applied to butter of an approved standard and manufactured under approved conditions from pasteurised cream or milk and in the authorised premises specified in the licence.
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(3) The Minister may acquire, design or otherwise establish more than one such national mark and every reference in this Act to “the national mark” shall be construed so as to mean the national marks if more than one such mark is established,
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(4) In this Part of this Act the expression “approved standard” means such standard of quality, packing, and finish as shall be prescribed by regulations made under this Part of this Act as the approved standard of butter for the purposes of the use of the national mark.
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(5) In this Part of this Act the expression “authorised premises” means any premises registered in the register of creameries, and such other premises as the Minister may, if and when he thinks fit, by order declare to be authorised premises for the purposes of the use of the national mark.
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(6) In this section the expression “approved conditions” means such conditions as respects premises, equipment, processes of manufacture, nature, quality and treatment of milk, cream, or other materials or ingredients used in the manufacture of butter upon the premises, nature, quality and treatment of butter (if any) brought into the premises, packages, wrappers, packing materials, and methods of packing as shall be prescribed by regulations made under this Act as the approved conditions in respect of any class of authorised premises for the purposes of the use of the national mark.
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