Offences Relating to Property Marks
Selling/exposing/possessing-for-sale goods bearing a counterfeit property mark is punished with up to 1 year's imprisonment, fine, or both - unless the seller proves they took reasonable precautions and had no reason to suspect the mark's genuineness, cooperated with information about their supplier, or otherwise acted innocently.
This targets sellers of counterfeit-branded goods, with a built-in innocent-seller defence for genuinely unwitting retailers who took reasonable care and cooperate with investigators.
A retailer knowingly selling counterfeit-branded goods commits this offence, but a retailer who genuinely didn't know the goods were counterfeit, took reasonable precautions, and cooperates with authorities to identify their supplier has a valid defence under this section.