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57 Power of [F1Secretary of State]to require packers and importers to furnish particulars of marks.E+W+S

(1)The [F1Secretary of State]may serve, on any person carrying on business as a packer or importer of packages, a notice requiring him—

(a)to furnish the [F1Secretary of State]from time to time with particulars of the kind specified in the notice of any marks which, otherwise than in pursuance of section 48(1)(c) above, are applied from time to time to packages made up or as the case may be imported by him, for the purpose of enabling the place where the packages were made up to be ascertained, and

(b)if he has furnished particulars of a mark in pursuance of the notice and the mark ceases to be applied for that purpose to packages made up or imported by him, to give notice of the cesser to the [F1Secretary of State];

but a notice given by the [F1Secretary of State]in pursuance of this subsection shall not require a person to furnish information which he does not possess.

(2)A person who without reasonable cause fails to comply with a notice served on him in pursuance of subsection (1) above shall be guilty of an offence.

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F1Words substituted by S.I. 1987/2187, art. 2(b), Sch. para. 3

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