Control of Manufacture Act 1959

“goods” includes all materials, commodities and articles for the time being specified in the First or Second Schedule;

“manufacture” means —

“registered manufacturer” means, in respect of the goods for the manufacture of which he is so registered, a person registered under section 3;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Manufacturers appointed under section 4.

For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may, by name or office, appoint a Registrar of Manufacturers and such Deputy and Assistant Registrars of Manufacturers and such other officers as he may consider necessary.

The Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, authorise any Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Manufacturers to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and duties conferred and imposed on the Registrar.

Every application for registration under section 3 shall be made in the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by such information as may be required by any rules made under this Act.

The Registrar may in his discretion register or refuse to register any person applying for registration in respect of any goods or class of goods and at the time of registering any person may impose such conditions as he thinks fit.

Where any person satisfies the Minister that immediately before the specification of any particular goods or class of goods in the First Schedule he —

Any person aggrieved by the imposition of any condition by the Registrar, or by the refusal of the Registrar to register any person, may appeal in writing to the Minister whose decision shall be final.

Every application for registration shall be accompanied by such fee as may be prescribed.

Registration shall not be transferable from one person to another without the written consent of the Minister, which consent shall not be withheld in respect of any registration to which subsection (3) applies.

Where it appears to the Registrar that —

The Registrar shall within 7 days of revoking any registration inform the registered manufacturer in writing of the revocation and the grounds for the revocation and inform him of his right to appeal to the General Division of the High Court.

Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Registrar made under subsection (1) may within 14 days of the notification to him of the grounds of the decision appeal to the General Division of the High Court whose decision shall be final.

The revocation of any registration under this section shall take effect 21 days after the making of the decision of the Registrar to revoke under subsection (1) or, in the event of an appeal to the General Division of the High Court under subsection (3), on the determination of the appeal.

For the purpose of subsection (1)(c), the Registrar may by notice in writing require a registered manufacturer to manufacture such minimum quantity of goods as the Registrar may determine.

A registered manufacturer who fails to comply with any notice under subsection (5) shall be deemed to have ceased to manufacture those goods.

The Registrar may by notice in writing call upon any registered manufacturer to furnish before a specified date such information pertaining to the conditions of his registration as the Registrar may require.

Nothing in subsection (1) shall be deemed to authorise the Registrar to require a registered manufacturer to disclose any secret process used by him in the manufacture of goods.

The information given by a registered manufacturer under subsection (1) shall be treated as confidential and shall not be used, published or disclosed otherwise than for the purposes of this Act without the consent in writing of the registered manufacturer.

Any person who engages in the manufacture for sale or other commercial purposes of any goods specified in the First or Second Schedule without being registered under this Act in respect of those goods shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction.

Any registered manufacturer who fails to comply with any condition of registration shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction.

Any person who —

Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law to the contrary, a District Court may award the full punishment for any offence under this Act.

The Minister may, by order, impose an annual duty for the manufacture of goods to be levied on registered manufacturers at such rate as the Minister may determine.

The Minister may in an order made under subsection (1) prescribe different rates of duties for different categories of goods.

All duties due and payable by a registered manufacturer shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Government.

The Minister may exempt any person from any or all of the provisions of this Act.

The Minister may, where he considers it in the interest of the public to do so, by order served on the registered manufacturer or published in the Gazette, fix the maximum amount of goods which may, from time to time, be manufactured by any registered manufacturer.

Any registered manufacturer who fails to comply with an order made under subsection (2) shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have contravened a condition of registration.