4 Applying a trade description to goods. U.K.
(1)A person applies a trade description to goods if he—
(a)affixes or annexes it to or in any manner marks it on or incorporates it with—
(i)the goods themselves, or
(ii)anything in, on or with which the goods are supplied; or
(b)places the goods in, on or with anything which the trade description has been affixed or annexed to, marked on or incorporated with, or places any such thing with the goods; or
(c)uses the trade description in any manner likely to be taken as referring to the goods.
(2)An oral statement may amount to the use of a trade description.
(3)Where goods are supplied in pursuance of a request in which a trade description is used and the circumstances are such as to make it reasonable to infer that the goods are supplied as goods corresponding to that trade description, the person supplying the goods shall be deemed to have applied that trade description to the goods.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 4 extended (1.1.1975) by Hallmarking Act 1973 (c. 43), s. 1(7) (b)