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Section 8

Seller to display licence and list of prices

of Price Control Act 1946

ActRepealedProvision 9 of 32
Section 8
(1)

Any person carrying on retail business in any premises or at any place in respect of which a licence has been issued by the Price

Controller under section 6 shall display, in a conspicuous position so that they may be easily read by any person purchasing price-controlled goods in those premises or at that place—

(a)

the original of the licence;

(b)

a list in the national language or in English of the current maximum prices of any price-controlled goods which are sold in those premises or at that place;

(c)

a copy in the national language or in English of section 11;

and

(d)

a translation of each of the foregoing in any language which the Price Controller, the Deputy Price Controller or any Assistant Price Controller may direct:

Provided that any hawker to whom the Price Controller has issued a licence under section 6 to sell price-controlled goods shall only be required to display—

(i)

the original of the licence; and

(ii)

a list in his own language of the current maximum prices of the price-controlled goods in which he deals.

Price Control 11

(2)

Any person who fails or refuses to comply with subsection (1)

shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.