Section 25: Certificate marks.

(1)
where the council, after the receipt of the report of a committee set up in accordance section 23(2) of this Act, is satisfied that an item of manufacture is of particular importance or significance to the national economy, it may permit the manufacturer (hereinafter referred to as the "permitted manufacturer") to affix a special certification mark showing that the item of manufacture is one of those falling under the Nigerian Industrial Standards.
(2) The council may charge such fee as it thinks appropriate for every permit issued under this section.
(3) The Council may revise, reallocate or revoke any permit issued under subsection (1) of this section in accordance with the procedure laid down in that subsection and the issue revision, reallocation or revocation of every such permit shall be notified in the Federal Gazette.
(4) For the purpose ofthis section, the references to item of manufacture includes references to the packages, containers and invoices relative thereto.
(5)
The standardisation mark and registration of products specified under Section 5 (1) (k) shall not be identical with any trade mark registered under the Trade Marks Act or so nearly resemble it as likely to be mistaken for it and no mark identical with those standardisation marks or so nearly resembling them as likely to be mistaken for them shall be registered as a trade mark under the Trade Mark Act.
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(6) The fact that any product complies or is alleged to comply with Nigerian Industrial Standard approved specification or has been or alleged to have been manufactured in accordance with any such specification or that a standardisation mark is used in connection with any product shall not give rise against the Organisation or its employees thereof.
(7) Where there is conflict between the provisions of a specification declared to be a Nigerian Industrial Standards under this Act and a specification made or declared under any other written law, the Nigerian Industrial Standards shall prevail.