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make provision for authorising or enyxnvering any person or
body of persons to authorise the marking with a trade designation
mark of any article in respect of which such a mark has
been prescribed or of anv covering containing or label attached
to any such article.
Special provisions are also included as to the marking of
preserved eggs, to the effect that after the 28th February, 1929,
no egg which has been subject to any process of preservation
shall be sold or exposed for sale unless the egg is marked in
the prescribed manner, viz.. the word "Preserved." This applies
to eggs preserved in lime-water, water-glass, oil, and whether
home-produced or imported.
If and so long as any order in Council made under Section
2 of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1926. is in force prohibiting
the sale or the exposure for sale in the United Kingdom of imported
eggs, unless they bear an indication of origin, British
e^gs which have been kept in cold storage or chemical storage
in any premises must not be removed from such premises unless
the e^gs have been marked in the prescribed manner, viz., with
the word "Chilled" or the words "Cold Stored," and in the
latter case with the word "Sterilised."
The Borough Council is the Local Authority under this
Act, and it is therefore their duty to enforce the provisions
thereof; it is further provided that premises used for the
purpose of cold storage or chemical storage of eggs may be
registered by the Local Authority, and an Officer of the Local
Authoritv may at any time during businesfc hours inspect such
premises.
The following Regulations have been made under this Act: —
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) (General)
Regulations, 1928.
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) (Eggs)
Regulations, 1928.
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) (Broccoli)
Regulations, 1929.
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) (Tomatoes
and Cucumbers) Regulations, 1929.