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Price certificates.
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39.—(1) Where a report is made to the Controller by an inspector on a complaint referred to him for investigation and the Controller, after consideration of such report, is of opinion that such complaint is well founded, the Controller may, with the consent of the Commission, make a certificate (in this Act referred to as a price certificate) in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars, certifying the price which, in the opinion of the Controller, is a reasonable price for the kind of the commodity which was the subject of the complaint when sold by the seller to whom such complaint relates in a specified area (which shall include the place in which the sale the subject of such complaint took place) under conditions similar to those under which the sale the subject of such complaint was made, and serve a copy of such certificate upon such seller.
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(2) Every price certificate shall remain in force until revoked.
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(3) The Controller may, with the consent of the Commission, publish a price certificate in such manner as he thinks fit.
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(4) The Controller may, with the consent of the Commission, revoke or amend a price certificate.
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(5) The Commission may request the Controller to amend, in such manner as they may think fit, or revoke a price certificate and the Controller shall comply with any such request.
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(6) Where a price order is made in relation to a kind of a commodity when sold or offered for sale in a particular area under a set of conditions, every price certificate relating to such kind of such commodity when sold or offered for sale in such area under a similar set of conditions shall cease to be in force.
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(7) A copy of a price certificate may be served by delivering it to the person named therein or by sending it by registered post to such person at the premises where he carries on business.
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