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(c) places, encloses or annexes the goods in, with or to any covering, label, reel or other thing to which that trade description has been applied; or (d) uses in connection with the goods a trade description in such manner as to be likely to lead to the belief that the goods are designated or described by that description. (2) Goods delivered in pursuance of an offer or request in which reference is made to a trade description contained in any sign, advertisement, invoice, wine list, business letter, business paper or other commercial communication, shall, for the purposes of paragraph (d) of subsection (1), be deemed to be goods in connection with which that trade description is used. (3) and (4) ...... (5) Any person who sells goods which having been used have been reconditioned, rebuilt or remade, whether in the Republic or elsewhere, and which bear the trade mark of the original maker or seller of the goods, shall, unless there is applied to them in a conspicuous manner words stating clearly that the goods have been reconditioned, rebuilt or remade, as the case may be, be deemed to apply a false trade description to the goods. (6) Any person who applies to goods any word, name, letter, figure or mark, or arrangement or combination thereof, other than a trade mark, as is likely to lead to the belief that the goods are the manufacture or merchandise of some person other than the person whose manufacture or merchandise they really are, shall be deemed to apply a false description to the goods. [S. 2 substituted by s. 2 of Act 38 of 1997.] 3. Appointment of officers Subject to the laws governing the public service, the Minister may appoint such officers as he or she may deem necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act. [S. 3 substituted by s. 3 of Act 38 of 1997.] 4. Powers of inspectors to enter and search premises and seize certain articles (1) If an inspector suspects that an offence in terms of this Act has been committed, is being or is likely to be committed or that preparations or arrangements for the commission of an offence in terms of this Act are being or are likely to be made on or in any premises (in this section referred to as the 'alleged offence'), he or she may, on the authority of a warrant issued under subsection (3)(a) enter the premises and search the premises or the person referred to in the warrant or the owner or person in control of the premises, and there make, subject to subsection (2), the enquiries he or she considers necessary;

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