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| (1) Whenever the Bureau has published any notice under subsection (1) of section 16, no person shall apply the standardization mark mentioned in that notice to any commodity-
| | (a) except under a permit issued by the Bureau or a person authorized in that behalf by the Bureau, and | | |
| | (b) unless that commodity complies with the relevant specification or has been manufactured, produced, processed or treated in accordance with that specification. | | |
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| (2) Any person who-
| | (a) applies a standardization mark to any receptacle or covering of any commodity or any label attached to any commodity or attached to any receptacle or covering thereof, or | | |
| | (b) places or encloses any commodity in a receptacle or covering to which any standardization mark has been applied, or in a receptacle or covering to which is attached a label to which any such mark has been applied, or | | |
| | (c) makes, in connection with the sale of any commodity, any reference, directly or indirectly, to a standardization mark in a manner or under circumstances calculated to convey the impression that the commodity complies with the specification to which the standardization mark relates, or that it has been manufactured, produced, processed or treated in accordance with that specification, | | |
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| (3) No person shall in connection with the sale of any commodity make any reference directly or indirectly to the Bureau or a specification framed and approved, or purporting to have been framed and approved, by the Bureau unless-
| | (a) the Bureau has declared any mark to be a standardization mark in respect of the specification framed by the Bureau for any commodity or for the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of that commodity, and | | |
| | (b) such person is in possession of a permit issued by the Bureau authorizing him to apply such standardization mark to that commodity. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts