Commodities (Indication of Origin) Regulations 1981
GN 170/1981 4th July
Regulations made by the Minister under Section 8 of the Fair Trading Act 1979
1. These regulations may be cited as the Commodities (Indication of Origin) Regulations 1981.
2. In these regulations-
"commodity" means an item specified in the Schedule;
container" includes any package, cask, bottle, vessel, box, capsule, frame, case, wrapper or any other receptacle in which a commodity is presented or prepared for sale;
“country of origin", in relation to a commodity, means the country in which the commodity was manufactured or in which the final process of manufacture took place;
"label" means any writing indelibly or otherwise permanently impressed upon, woven, sewn, or worked into, or affixed to, or otherwise marked on, a commodity or a container of a commodity;
“manufacture" means assemble, make, prepare, produce, put into a container, a commodity by any process;
"mark" has the same meaning as in the Trade Marks Ordinance.
3. (1) No trader shall import a commodity for sale in Mauritius unless at the time of its importation-
(a) the commodity bears a conspicuous label indicating the country of origin of the commodity; or
(b) where the nature of the commodity is such that it does not permit compliance with subparagraph (a), the container of the commodity bears a conspicuous label indicating the country of origin of the commodity.
3(1)A (a) The Minister may, in case of non compliance with regulation 3(1), authorise an importer to affix locally a label indicating the Country Origin of an
imported commodity, provided a certificate of origin is produced;
(b) The label shall be affixed under the supervision of an authorised officer prior to
clearance from customs.
Added by [GN No. 50 of 2005]
(2) Where a trader imports a commodity for sale in Mauritius for further processing or for re-packing, he shall put a conspicuous label-