Packaged Goods (Quantity Control) Act, 1980

Extension of Act.

5.—(1) The Minister may by regulations declare that such provisions of this Act as are prescribed shall apply, with such modifications (if any) as may be prescribed, to packages of a prescribed class or description, being packages which—

(a) have been made up otherwise than in the presence of the person purchasing the package, and

(b) have expressed thereon a quantity expressed in units of weight or volume, and

(c) are not packages to which section 8 of this Act otherwise applies.

(2) In case regulations under this section are for the time being in force a reference in this Act to a package to which section 8 of this Act applies shall, in case the application of the provision in which the reference occurs is extended by the regulations, for the purpose of giving effect to the regulation be construed as including a reference to a package to which the application of the provision is so extended.