Control of Prices (Amendment) Law (No. 43 of 1975)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 6 of the principal enactment

3. Section 6 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (2) of that section as follows:-

(i) by the omission of paragraph (b) of that subsection;

(ii) by the substitution, for paragraph (d) of that subsection, of the following paragraph: -

	"(d) the prohibition, regulation or control of the storage, removal or disposal of any articles, and the prevention of the hoarding of any articles, during the operation of any Order made or deemed to be made under the National Prices Commission Law fixing the prices of such articles; '';

(iii) by the substitution, for paragraph (e) of that subsection, of the following paragraph:

	"(e) the seizure of articles in respect of which or in relation to which contraventions of any Order made or deemed to be made under the National Prices Commission Law fixing the prices of such articles, or of any regulation made under this Act have been or are suspected to have been committed, and the custody, sale and disposal of articles so seized or ordered by any court to be forfeited;" ;

(iv) by the repeal of paragraph (f) of that subsection; and

(v) by the substitution, for paragraph (g) of that subsection, of the following paragraph: -

	(g) any other matter incidental or consequential to any of the matters herein before mentioned, or which may be necessary for the purpose of securing compliance with any Order made or deemed to be made under the National Prices Commission Law fixing the prices of any article."