Section 7C: Display of prior price
This section is inserted by Act No 11 of 2024, section 17.
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7C. Display of prior price
(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), any
announcement of a price reduction shall indicate the prior
price applied by a registered person or other trader for a
determined period of time prior to the application of the price
reduction.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to –
(a) announcements of price reductions for
perishable products; or
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(b) products that have been on the market for
less than 30 days.
(3) In this section –
“prior price” –
(a) means the lowest price applied during
a period of time which shall not be less than
30 days prior to the application of the price
reduction; but
(b) notwithstanding paragraph (a), means, in
the case of successive price reductions at
any point in time, the price charged before
the application of the first price reduction.
(d) by inserting, after section 8, the following new section –
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Questions this section answers
- If a shop advertises a discount, must it also show the price the item was selling at before?
- Does a shop have to show the earlier price when discounting a perishable product?