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TRADING REPRESENTATIONS (DISABLED PERSONS) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 2

Registration for purposes of Act.

2.(1) Registration under this Act shall be effected by the Ministry on
applications made to it and in accordance with the following provisions of
this section.

(2) The Ministry shall not register a person under this Act unless the
Ministry is satisfied, in relation to goods of the description as respects
which registration is applied for

(a)that the extent and nature of the employment for substantially disabled
persons, or any description of such persons, to be provided by the applicant
for registration in connection with the production, preparation, packing or
sale of the goods, or as the case may be the benefit to such persons, or any
description of such persons, to be provided by the sale of the goods or the
carrying on of the business, is such that such representations as are
mentioned in sub-section (1) of section one can reasonably and properly be
made in relation to the goods; and

(b)that the relevant representations which it is proposed to make will fairly
convey the extent and nature of the said employment or benefit;

(3) Registration under this Act may be granted either for a specified period
or indefinitely.

(4) The Minister may impose requirements on persons registered under this Act
for securing the matters specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of
sub-section (2).

(5) If at any time while a person is registered under this Act in respect of
goods of any description the Minister is not satisfied of the matters
specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2), or is satisfied that
relevant representations are made which do not fairly represent the extent and
nature of the employment or benefit provided as aforesaid, the Minister shall
cancel the registration; and if any requirement imposed under sub-section (4)
on a person registered under this Act is not complied with, the Minister may
cancel the registration.

(6) On an application for registration under this Act the applicant shall
furnish such information as the Ministry may require with respect to

(a)the number of persons to be employed by the applicant in connection with
the production, preparation, packing and sale of goods of the description to
which the application relates, the capacities in which or the operations in
which they are to be so employed, and the proportion of the whole, or of those
to be employed in particular capacities or operations, which consists of
persons who are substantially disabled or of any description of such persons;

(b)the terms of employment, and in particular the remuneration, of persons to
be employed as aforesaid who are substantially disabled or of any description
of such persons;

(c)the source from which the applicant will obtain the goods of the
description in question to be offered for sale by the applicant, where they
are not to be produced by the applicant, and the persons by whom such goods
will be prepared or packed where the goods are not to be prepared, or as the
case may be packed, by the applicant;

(d)the nature of the representations with respect to employment of, or benefit
to, substantially disabled persons which it is proposed to make in connection
with the sale of the goods, and, where it is proposed to make the
representations in relation to a particular description of such persons, the
nature of that description of persons;

(7) At any time while a person is registered under this Act the Ministry may
require him to furnish such information as may be relevant to the exercise by
the Minister of his powers of cancelling registration; and if any person
required to furnish such information fails to do so without reasonable excuse
the Minister may cancel his registration.

(8) On the registration of any person under this Act the Ministry shall send
to him a certificate of registration, and if the registration is for a period
the certificate shall specify the date of expiration of that period; and where
the registration of a person is refused, or any requirement is imposed on a
person under sub-section (4) (whether on registration or subsequently) or the
registration of any person is cancelled, the Ministry shall send notice in
writing of the refusal, requirement or cancellation to the applicant for
registration or, as the case may be, the person to whom the registration
relates.

Any certificate or notice under this sub-section may be sent by post to the
usual or last known address of the person to whom it is to be sent.

(9) A certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Minister that
any person was or was not on any date specified in the certificate, or during
any period so specified, registered under this Act in respect of goods of a
description so specified shall be evidence until the contrary is proved of the
facts certified.

(10) In this section "relevant representation" means a representation such as
is mentioned in sub-section (1) of section one, being a representation made or
to be made in selling or soliciting orders for the goods in question and in
the course of visits from house to house or by post.

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