Section 23, The Sierra Leone Export Promotion Council Act, 1981 [Margin: Short title.]

(1) The Minister may, in consultation with the Council, by Order published in the Gazette— (a) declare a compulsory standard specification for any export goods or for the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of any such goods, with effect from the date specified in that Order; (b) prescribe in respect of such compulsory standard specification distinctive marks for any such export goods which have been manufactured, produced or treated in accordance with that specification. (2) If the Order proposed to be made under subsection (1) relates to any export goods or the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of any such goods, which is the subject matter of any other written law, the Order shall be made by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister to whom such subject or function of such other law has been assigned. [Margin: Export Credit Guarantee Scheme.]