South Africa Act 1962

7 (1) For the purposes of the following provisions of the Merchandise Marks Acts, 1887 to 1953, that is to say—

(a) subsection (1) (d) of section two of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887 (application of false trade description to goods);

(b) subsection (2) of (the said section two (sale of goods bearing false trade description); and

(c) subsection (1) of section one of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, and any Order in Council made under subsection (1) of section two of that Act (sale of goods lacking indication of origin),

so far as those provisions apply to anything done before the relevant date prescribed by this paragraph, the word " Empire ", when used in relation to goods or things manufactured or produced in the Republic or in 'the mandated territory of South West Africa, shall be deemed not to constitute a false trade description, or shal be deemed to constitute a sufficient indication of origin, as the case may be.

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph the relevant date—

(a) in relation to subsection (1)(d) of section two of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, is the thirty-first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-two';

(b) in relation to the other provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1), is the thirty-first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-three:

Provided that for the purposes of section sixteen of the said Act of 1887 (prohibition on importation), the question whether any goods are goods which, if sold, would be liable to forfeiture under that Act shall be determined as if the thirty-first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, were 'the relevant date in relation to all the provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (1).