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IN exercise of the powers
conferred on the Commissioner
responsible for Trade acting on
the advice of the Prices and
Incomes Board by section 17 of the
Price Control Decree, 1974 (N.R.C.D.
305) these Regulations are made
this 11th day of March, 1976.
Regulation 1—Display of List of
Controlled Prices.
(1) Every person who carries on a
trade or business involving the
selling of any goods in relation
to which a price control order has
been made under the Price Control
Decree, 1974 (N.R.C.D. 305) shall,
for the information of the public,
at all times keep a copy of the
current lists of controlled prices
openly displayed on the premises
where he sells the goods.
(2) Every local authority or other
person who builds, maintains or
operates a market shall at all
times keep copies of the current
lists of controlled prices openly
displayed at the entrance to the
market and in such other places
within or outside the market as
the Commissioner may direct.
(3) The lists of controlled prices
referred to in sub-regulation (1)
and (2) shall be displayed in such
form and manner as the
Commissioner may direct.
(4) Any person who contravenes any
provision of this regulation or
who, without the authority of the
Commissioner or of an inspector or
of any other person authorised in
that behalf by the Commissioner
removes, defaces, mutilates or
intermeddles with a list displayed
in accordance with this regulation
shall be guilty of an offence and
liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding ¢200.00 or to
imprisonment not exceeding twelve
months or to both.
Regulation 2—Marking of Prices.
(1) Except in such cases as the
Commissioner may determine and
subject to the provisions of this
regulation, every person who
carries on a trade or business
involving the sale of any goods
shall mark the goods with the
prices at which they are offered
for sale.
(2) The price marked on one
article for the purposes of this
regulation shall apply to all
similar articles offered for sale
by the same person at the same
time and where the goods are sold
by quantity the price per unit of
sale shall be marked.
(3) A person shall be deemed to
comply with sub-regulation (1) of
this regulation if he affixes or
otherwise places the price of the
goods in such relationship with
those goods as to inform persons
wishing to buy the goods of their
price without the need for such
persons to ask their price from
the seller.
(4) Any person who contravenes any
provision of this regulation shall
be guilty of an offence and liable
on conviction to a fine not
exceeding ¢200.00 or to
imprisonment not exceeding twelve
months or to both.
Regulation 3—Inspectors.
Any person appointed by a
certificate issued in the form
specified in the Schedule to these
Regulations and signed by or on
behalf of the Commissioner may act
as an inspector for the purpose of
enforcing the provisions of the
Price Control Decree, 1974 (N.R.C.D.
305):
Provided that a police officer may
act as such inspector without a
certificate if he acts in
accordance with section 13(4) of
the said Decree.
Regulation 4—Revocations.
The following instruments are
hereby revoked:—
Control of Prices (Inspectors)
Regulations, 1962 (LI 180)
Control of Prices (Display of
Price List and Marking of Prices)
Regulations, 1962 (LI 181)
Control of Prices (Display of
Price List and Marking of Prices)
(Amendment) Regulation, 1965 (LI
479).
SCHEDULE
FORM OF INSPECTOR'S CERTIFICATE OF
APPOINTMENT
PRICE CONTROL DECREE, 1974 (N.R.C.D.
305)
INSPECTOR'S CERTIFICATE OF
APPOINTMENT
This is to certify that
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has been appointed an inspector
for the purposes of enforcing the
provisions of the Price Control
Decree, 1974 (N.R.C.D. 305) and is
authorised to enter and inspect
premises under section 13 of that
Decree and to exercise all the
powers conferred on inspectors by
that section.
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Photograph and Signature of
Inspector
It is a criminal offence to
obstruct an inspector.
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Signature of issuing Officer
COLONEL K. A. QUARSHIE
Commissioner Responsible for Trade
Date of Gazette Notification:
12th March, 1976.
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