Merchandise Marks Act, 1931

Restriction on sale orders and restriction on importation orders.

8.—(1) If, after consideration of a report of the Commission in relation to goods of a particular class or description, the Executive Council are of opinion that it is desirable that imported goods of that class or description should at the time of sale or exposure for sale bear an indication of origin, the Executive Council may, under and in accordance with this Act, make an order (in this Act referred to as a restriction on sale order) prohibiting the sale or exposure for sale of goods of that class or description unless such goods bear at the time of such sale or exposure an indication of origin in the form specified in such order.

(2) If, after consideration of a report of the Commission in relation to goods of a particular class or description, the Executive Council are of opinion that it is desirable that imported goods of that class or description should bear an indication of origin at the time of importation, the Executive Council may (without prejudice to their power to make a restriction on sale order in relation to imported goods of that class or description) make, under and in accordance with this Act, an order (in this Act referred to as a restriction on importation order) prohibiting the importation of goods of that class or description unless they bear at the time of importation an indication of origin in the form specified in such order.

(3) In this Act the expression “restriction order” shall be construed as equivalent to the expression “a restriction on sale order or a restriction on importation order.”