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Regulations.
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19.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—
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(a) appointing the procedure to be adopted by local authorities in carrying this Act into effect;
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(b) prescribing the method of fixing or determining (including fixing by reference to samples) the standard of quality for any commodity for which the Minister has appointed or intends to appoint an official contractor;
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(c) authorising the provision by the Minister of official samples of any commodity for which he proposes to appoint an official contractor and providing for the deposit of such official samples for public inspection;
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(d) prescribing any matter or thing which is referred to in this Act as prescribed or as being or to be prescribed.
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(2) The Minister may by special direction prescribe that any regulations made under this section shall not apply in relation to a specified commodity or shall apply in relation to a specified commodity with specified modifications, or that a provision not applying in relation to a specified commodity by virtue of any regulation made under this section shall apply in relation to that commodity.
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(3) Where a special direction in respect of any commodity has been given under this section, any person, who before such direction was given applied to be appointed as official contractor for the supply of that commodity and who has not been appointed in pursuance of the said application, may withdraw the said application at any time before he is so appointed.
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(4) A special direction given under this section in respect of any commodity shall not apply in relation to any official con tractor for the supply of that commodity who was appointed to be such official contractor before such direction was given so long as he continues to be such official contractor by virtue of such appointment.
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(5) The Minister may at any time by special direction amend or revoke a special direction previously given under this section, including a special direction given under this sub-section.
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(6) In this Act the word “prescribed” means, according as may be appropriate, prescribed by regulations made under this section or by a special direction given under this section or by the joint operation of regulations so made and a special direction so given.
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