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Section 8. The control with respect to matters coming under this law shall be exercised by the Custom authorities, the police, and the margarine inspectors in accordance with further orders issued by the Chief of the Customs and the Minister of Agriculture. The controllers shall be entitled to have access to any manufactory, sale-room, room for storing cargo on board ships, and store-room where goods of the species mentioned in this law are offered for sale, to examine the books the parties concerned are liable to keep in accordance with this law, and to take out samples, paying for same at the current market prices. Unauthorized refusal to admit the police, Custom, or controlling officers to inspect the premises or books, and refusal to deliver samples, are punishable with fines from 50 to 500 kroner. Section 9. In cases of infringements of the rules laid down in sections 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 of the present law, fines of 50 to 2,500 kroner, and of sections 3 and 7, fines of 100 to 200, may be inflicted. Anybody who sells the goods mentioned in the present law as Danish, although he is aware that they are of foreign origin, shall be punished, in case the offence might not under the circumstances involve a higher penalty, with fines from 100 to 2,500 kroner. The goods which are not legally marked shall be confiscated for the benefit of the Treasury. In cases of repetition the name of the culprit shall be published by the police, with information as to the nature of the offence. The judgment decides whether such publication is to take place. Cases regarding infringements of the present law shall be decided in the public Police Court. The fines shall accrue to the Treasury. Section 10. The rules laid down as regards sale in the present law shall also apply as regards distribution by co-operative and similar societies. Section 11. A.ny chemical and microscopical analyses deemed requisite by the controlling officers shall, as far as possible, be made at one of the Government laboratories. The expenditure for such examinations, as well as for enforcing the rules of the present law, is to be provided for in the annual financial laws. Section 13. Section 4 of Law No. 70, of 27th April, 1894,' concerning the use of wrong indications of goods, is hereby repealed. Section 14. This law, which does not include the Faroe Islands, comes into force six months after its publication in the Lovtidende (official gazette). Importation from Foreign Countries of Domestic Animals and Raw Articles of Same, etc The Ministry of Agriculture has issued the following regulations under date of the 13th instant:— It having been thought desirable that all the different regulations respecting the importation from different foreign countries of domestic animals should be collected together instead of being spread in different notices, the Ministry has caused to be collected and revised the different regulations. In conformity with the law of 14th April, 1893, paragraphs 14 and 15, respecting contagious diseases of domestic animals, the following rules are to be observed when at the introduction from a country or a province either " general prohibition," " limited prohibition," " three weeks' isolation at the place of destination," or " sanitary inspection at the place of arrival," has been ordered. The Ministry refers to another notice of same date, emanating from it, respecting the interpretation of the said expressions in respect to the different countries. Paragraph 1 : General Prohibition. Live animals of the kind in question and raw parts of same, as well as milk, hay, and straw, must not be imported or sent in transit. Under raw parts are understood fresh, and slightly salted, meat and slaughtery offals, hides, and skins which are not dressed or fully sun-dried or dry-salted ; bones, horns which are not fully dried, hoofs, unwashed wool, unprepared cow-hair and hog*' bristles, unmelted tallow, and manure. On the other hand, unprepared cow-hair, hogs' bristles, unwashed wool, and wool which is only body-washed are allowed to be imported on the condition that shipments are imported properly packed and immediately from the place of unloading ; that the above articles are transported under the control of the veterinary police to the receiver's tannery, manufactory, or workshop to be fully purified or transformed there ; and that the receiver is further bound to certify to the veterinary police that no parts of the imported goods will be carried away from the place before they have been fully purified or prepared. Fully sun-dried bellies, guts, and bladders can be imported free. Hay and straw which serve as packing for merchandise can be imported, but must not be used for the maintenance and keep of cloven-footed domestic beasts. Paragraph 2 : Limited Prohibition. Live animals of the kind in question, as well as milk, hay, straw, and manure, must not be imported. : Hay and straw which serve as packing can be imported free.