Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRICES SURVEILLANCE ACT 1983 No. 145, 1983 - SECT 25

25. (1) Where the Authority has served, or proposes to serve, a notice on a
person pursuant to paragraph 19 (1) (b), the Authority may at any time, on its
own initiative or on the application of the person, give to the person a
notice in writing stating that the person is permitted, from a specified date
until the day that is, for the purposes of sub-section 24 (1), the prescribed
day in relation to the first-mentioned notice, to supply goods or services of
a specified description in a specified locality on specified terms and
conditions at a price not exceeding a specified price.

(2) Where a notice given to a person under sub-section (1) is in force, the
person is not guilty of an offence against section 24 by reason only that the
person supplies goods or services of the description specified in the notice
in the locality so specified on the terms and conditions so specified, or on
terms and conditions that are the same as, or substantially similar to, those
terms and conditions, at a price not exceeding the price so specified.