Industrial Research and Standards Act, 1961

Unlawful to manufacture certain commodities intended for sale.

44.—(1) For the purpose of promoting the safe use by the public of a commodity intended for sale to the public (or for incorporation in any other commodity intended for such sale) the Minister may, by an order under this section, declare that it shall be unlawful to manufacture, assemble or sell that commodity unless it complies with the standard specification declared by the Institute for that commodity or with a specification or standard of quality prescribed by a Minister of State or with any condition specified in such order which the Minister considers necessary or desirable.

(2) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, limit the application of an order made under this section to a commodity intended for sale to the public in any country or countries specified in the order or for incorporation in any other commodity intended for such sale.

(3) No order shall be made under this section where there is a power to make a similar order under any other enactment.

(4) Every person who manufactures, assembles or sells any commodity in contravention of an order made by the Minister under this section shall be guilty of an offence.

(5) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if either House, within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the order the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.