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Regulations as to marking eggs and packages.
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15.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations prescribing the marks to be placed on every package of eggs sold on or exported or consigned from any premises registered in the register of exporters for the purpose of indicating all or any of the matters following, that is to say:—
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(a) the grade of the eggs contained in such package;
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(b) the premises on which such eggs were packed;
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(c) in the case of preserved eggs, that such eggs are preserved;
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(d) that such eggs were produced in Saorstát Eireann; and
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(e) any other matter which in the opinion of the Minister should be indicated on such package.
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(2) The Minister may also by order make regulations prescribing the marks to be placed on every egg sold on or consigned from any premises registered in the register of exporters for the purpose of indicating all or any of the matters mentioned in the foregoing sub-section and any other matter which in the opinion of the Minister should be indicated on such eggs.
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(3) For the purpose of so much of the foregoing sub-sections as relates to indicating the premises on which eggs were packed, the Minister may assign to every premises registered in the register of exporters a distinctive mark, and may by the regulations made by him under this section require the marks so assigned to be used as the mark for indicating the premises on which packages or eggs were packed.
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(4) Whenever any mark is prescribed by regulations made under this section as the mark to be placed on eggs of any particular grade, description, or place of production, or packed in any particular premises, or on packages containing eggs of any such grade, description, or place of production, or packed in any such premises, the application of such mark to eggs of any other grade, description, or place of production, or to any package containing any such eggs or to any eggs or package packed on any other premises shall be taken to be a false trade description within the meaning of the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887 to 1911, and the provisions of those Acts, including the penal provisions, shall apply accordingly.
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(5) For the purposes of this section a mark shall be deemed to be applied if it is applied within the meaning of the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887 to 1911.
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(6) In this section the word “mark” includes any word, letter, figure, or design, or any combination of words, letters, figures and designs or any one or more of them.
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