description is not a false trade description, as the case may be, unless the goods
contrary is expressed in writing signed by the seller or on his behalf and
delivered at the time of the sale to and accepted by the purchaser.
18. No person shall sell in any bottle, to which or to the stopper of
which have been indelibly applied words indicating that the bottle is the
property of a named person, goods resembling or so nearly resembling
goods manufactured or produced for sale in any such bottle by such
named person as to be likely to deceive.
Sale of goods in
bottles marked
with owner's
name
19. (1) The Minister may appoint any person to be an inspector for the Appointment of
inspectors and
purposes of this Act.
powers of
police officers
and inspectors
(2) Any inspector who produces a certificate of his appointment under
subsection (1) or any police officer may, at any time during the hours
when the premises are open for business, enter any premises on which
he has reason to believe there are kept for sale any goods, whether
imported into or manufactured in Zambia, and, on giving a receipt
therefor, may, without payment, take and remove samples of any such
goods for examination or inspection or for any other purpose relating to
the provisions of this Act.
(3) A police officer or inspector taking a sample in terms of subsection
(2) shall forthwith notify the person on whose premises the sample is
taken, or his agent, that the sample is taken in pursuance of the
provisions of this Act and shall, if required so to do at the time of giving
such notification, select a second like sample or, if practicable, divide
the sample into two parts and mark and seal and leave with that person
or agent either the second sample or one part of the divided sample.
(4) Any sample taken by a police officer or inspector under the powers
conferred upon him by subsection (3) shall, whenever possible, be
returned by him to the person from whose premises it was removed or to
his agent.
(5) No person shall obstruct a police officer or inspector in the
execution of the powers conferred upon such officer or such inspector