Section 6Part 0 —
Exemptions of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
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Where a defendant is charged with making any die, block, machine or other instrument, for the purpose of forging or being used for forging a trade mark, or with falsely applying to goods any trade mark, or any mark so nearly resembling a trade mark as to be calculated to deceive, or with applying to goods any false trade description, or causing any of such things to be done and proves that —
in the ordinary course of his business he is employed on behalf of other persons to make dies, blocks, machines or other instruments, for making or being used in making trade marks, or, as the case may be, to apply marks or description to goods, and that in the case which is the subject of the charge he was so employed by some person resident in the Islands, and was not interested in the goods by way of profit or commission dependent on the sale of such goods;
he took reasonable precautions against committing the offence charged;
he had, at the time of the commission of the alleged offence, no reason to suspect the genuineness of the trade mark or trade description; and
he gave to the prosecutor all the information in his power with respect to the persons on whose behalf the trade mark, mark or description was applied,
he shall be discharged from the prosecution, but shall be liable to pay the costs incurred by the prosecutor unless he has given due notice to him that he will rely on the above defence.