§ Mr. VIANTasked the Minister of Agriculture the date upon which the marking order under the Merchandise Marks Acts for imported rose trees will come into effect?
Mr. GUINNESSThe Draft Order in Council provides that the Order shall come into operation three months after the Order is made. The Merchandise Marks Act, 1926, requires that the draft Order shall lie before each House of Parliament for 21 days during which the House is sitting before the Order is made. If, as I anticipate, the Order is made about the middle of May, it would come into operation about the middle of August in time for the autumn trade.
§ Mr. DAYasked the Minister of Agriculture the names of the experts upon whose advice he has decided that the only suitable place to mark imported roses is at the collars of the trees?
Mr. GUINNESSIt is a well-established practice not to disclose the names of departmental experts upon whose advice a Minister relies and for which he takes complete responsibility, and I am not prepared to do so in this case.