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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (ii)

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No 65] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1968/PHALGUNA 10, 1889

Separate paging Is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE

ORDER

New Delhi, the 29th February 1968

S.O. 810—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), the Central Government hereby directs that the powers conferred on it by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act to make orders to provide for the matters specified in clause (c) of sub-section (2) thereof shall, in relation to all commodities other than foodstuffs and fertilizers (whether inorganic, organic or mixed), be exerciseable also by the Commissioner of Civil Supplies, Madras, subject to the following conditions, namely: —

(i) that where the price at which any essential commodity may be bought or sold is controlled by or under any other law for the time being in force, no order shall be made in pursuance of the powers hereby delegated;

(ii) that where the price is not so controlled no order shall be made in pursuance of the powers hereby delegated in respect of any essential commodity,(a) if the wholesale prices, or retail prices, or both, of such commodity have been fixed by the manufacturers or producers thereof with the approval of the Central Government, except on the basis of such prices; (b) in any other case, except with the prior concurrence of the Central Government; (iii) that no order shall be issued in pursuance of the powers hereby de- legated. (143)

(b) after the expiration of a period of one year from the date of pub- lication of this order in the Official Gazette.

[No. 2fl(17)CS.II/66.]

K. B. LAL, Secy.