Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

PRICE EXPLOITATION PREVENTION ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short title and commencement  
   2.      Purposes  
   4.      Interpretation  
   6.      Controller  
   7.      Deputy Controllers  
   8.      Secrecy  
   9.      The Minister and others not compellable witnesses  
   10.     Power to summon witnesses, &c.  
   11.     Failure of witness to appear  
   12.     Failure to take oath, produce documents or answer questions  
   14.     Power to obtain information  
   15.     Production of balance-sheets and other accounts and statements  
   16.     Power to enter premises and inspect documents  
   17.     Preventing Controller etc. from entering premises etc.  
   18.     Controller etc. may require returns to be provided  
   19.     Power to declare goods and services  
   20.     Determination of maximum prices, rates etc.  
   21.     Sale of goods and supply of service in one transaction  
   22.     Transactions may be declared to be sales  
   23.     Power to prohibit certain transactions  
   24.     Power of Minister to suspend order, &c.  
   25.     Power to prohibit sale of goods or supply of services before maximum price or rate fixed  
   26.     Inter-wholesale transaction  
   27.     Inter-retail transaction  
   28.     Statements that prices approved by Controller prohibited without Controller's approval  
   29.     Sale of goods subject to condition  
   30.     Offence to sell at price higher than maximum price  
   31.     Offence to charge excessive rate for service  
   32.     Enforcement of orders for refunds  
   33.     Sale of declared goods with undeclared goods, &c.  
   34.     Offering to pay higher price for declared goods etc.  
   35.     Delivery of goods less in quantity or inferior in quality to those sold  
   36.     Averment of prosecution  
   37.     Prosecutions where price fixed is lower or lowest of more than one price  
   38.     Meaning of wholesale and retail  
   39.     Refusal etc. to sell at fixed price  
   40.     Refusal to perform service at declared rate  
   41.     Alteration of size of containers, quantity or ingredients of declared goods  
   42.     Speculating in goods  
   43.     Corners and restrictions on circulation of goods  
   44.     Forfeiture of goods to Crown  
   45.     Seizure and disposal of forfeited goods  
   46.     Sales by auction  
   47.     Payment to former owner of whole or portion of proceeds of sale  
   48.     Delivery of invoice or docket with goods  
   49.     Power to search for goods  
   50.     Particulars with respect to declared goods and declared services to be exhibited  
   51.     Advertisements as to declared goods and services  
   52.     Tickets etc. to be attached to declared goods  
   53.     Orders  
   54.     Manner in which notice in writing may be given  
   55.     Application of orders, &c.  
   56.     Delegation by Controller  
   57.     Books, accounts etc. to be kept and preserved  
   58.     Penalties  
   59.     Offences by corporation  
   59A.    Regulatory offences  
   60.     Power to order recognizances  
   61.     Evidentiary provisions  
   62.     Proof of instruments  
   63.     Evidence of orders, &c.  
   64.     Admissibility of evidence of answers given orally under compulsion  
   65.     Regulations  
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