Section 7A: Information on commodities being sold
This section is inserted by Finance Act 2023, section 17.
consolidated text (as at 2015, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
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
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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.