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Section 7A: Information on commodities being sold

Consumer Protection (Price And Supplies Control) Act

This section is inserted by Finance Act 2023, section 17.

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7A. Information on commodities being sold (1) Every trader with an annual turnover exceeding 50 million rupees shall, on the request of the Ministry, submit any information in relation to commodities being sold in his retail outlet, including the retail prices of such commodities, in such form and manner as may be prescribed. (2) The Minister may, by regulations, prescribe any matter which is incidental or related to the submission of any information under subsection (1). (c) in section 17 – (i) in subsection (1), by deleting the words “A trader” and Acts 2023 195 replacing them by the words “Subject to subsection (1A), a trader”; (ii) by inserting, after subsection (1), the following new subsection – (1A) (a) Notwithstanding subsection (1) but subject to paragraph (b), no trader shall display cigarettes or specimens of cigarettes in that part of his trading premises to which the public has access. (b) A trader shall display specimen of cigarettes at a duty-free shop (international departure only) of the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport, the Port Louis Harbour and the Plaine Corail Airport.

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