Rice.
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direction of
prior
3. If any person, by obeying any order made under subsection (1) of section 2, is prevented from fulfilling any contract, such person shall not be deemed to have thereby committed a breach of contract but such contract shall be deemed to be cancelled so far as its fulfilment may be prevented by any such order.
of profit by
4. The total proceeds of all sales of rice for consumption in the Colony shall not recoup to the Government more than the total cost of purchasing the same together with the expenses incidental to such purchase and sale.
on total
sales of rice.
Power to fix retail
Governor to
price of rice and prohibition of sale
such price.
5. The Governor may by proclamation prescribe prices for sale by retail in any particular district in the Colony, being—
(a) the price of rice of any particular standard Government quality, as defined by section 6; or
(b) the maximum price of any particular quality of rice, other than a standard Government quality,
and any person who in breach of any such proclamation sells any such standard Government quality of rice at a price other than the price so prescribed or sells any such other quality of rice at a price higher than the maximum price so prescribed shall be guilty of an offence.
6.
tion of
Government
qualities of
rice.
The qualities of rice for which a price is fixed in any particular district of the Colony shall be determined by persons to be appointed for the purpose by the Governor. Samples of the qualities so determined shall be kept at all police stations and shall be open to inspection. Such samples shall conform to sealed samples kept in the offices of the Director of Commerce and Industry and the District Commissioner, and such sealed samples shall be known as standard Government qualities.
of selling
rice of
inferior
quality.
Any person who sells rice purporting to be of one of the standard Government qualities which differs from such quality to the prejudice of the purchaser shall be guilty of an offence.
of sale of Government rice.
8. Any person who sells any rice supplied by the Government except under licence issued by an officer appointed by the Governor for that purpose shall be guilty of an offence.
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