New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRICES REGULATION ACT 1948 - SECT 36

36 Prosecutions where price fixed is lower or lowest of more than one price

Where a maximum price or rate fixed under this Act (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) is expressed to be the lower or lowest of two or more prices or rates, then, for the purposes of any prosecution for a contravention of this Act, the prosecutor may, in the information, recite as that maximum price or rate any one of those prices or rates, and, for the purposes of that prosecution (including the proof of the maximum price or rate so recited) and for any purpose arising out of that prosecution, the order or notice by which the maximum price or rate was so fixed shall be deemed to have fixed as the relevant maximum price or rate the price or rate so recited.