New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRICES REGULATION ACT 1948 - SECT 31

31 Charging excessive rate for services, an offence

(1) A person shall not:

(a) supply or offer to supply any declared service at a higher rate than the maximum rate fixed in relation thereto under this Act, or

(b) without the approval of the Tribunal, supply or offer to supply any declared service upon terms and conditions different from the terms and conditions upon which a substantially identical service was supplied by him or her on the prescribed date if such supply or offer to supply upon such terms and conditions would result directly or indirectly:

(i) in a greater rate than the maximum rate fixed in relation thereto being obtained, or

(ii) in any other manner to the advantage of the supplier.

(2) For the purposes of this section, any person on whose behalf or at whose place of business any declared service is supplied at a higher rate than the maximum rate fixed in relation thereto under this Act, whether the service is supplied at such rate contrary to the instructions of such person or not, shall be deemed to have contravened the provisions of this section.

(3) In this section, "prescribed date", in relation to the supply or offer to supply any declared service, means such date as is declared to be the “prescribed date” in any order made with respect to that service under section 20.