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Counter-Inflation Act - Counter-Inflation (Price Control) (SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET) (Exemption) Order 2009

FIJI ISLANDS

[LEGAL NOTICE NO. 79]

COUNTER-INFLATION ACT
(CAP. 73)

Counter-Inflation (Price Control) (SHOP N SAVE
SUPERMAKET)(Exemption) Order 2009

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 20 of the Counter-Inflation Act, and all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the Prices and Incomes Board, with the approval of the Prime Minister and Minister for Finance & National Planning makes the following order -

Citation and commencement

1. This Order maybe cited as the Counter-Inflation (Price Control) (SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET) (Exemption) Order 2009 and comes into force on 29 October 2009.
Exemption from individual price marking of price controlled products.

Exemption from individual price making of price controlled products.

2.-(1) Subjected to sub-clause (2) of this clause, the provisions of the orders made prior to this order, and subsequent thereto, under section 9 and 23 (a) of the Counter-Inflation Act, requiring any person having price controlled products for sale be retail to have the product individually marked with the maximum price for information of the public shall not apply to SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET, VALELEVU, SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET, FLETCHER ROAD NABUA, SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET, NAMAKA and SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET, LAMI.

(2) For the purpose of the exemption granted by this Order, SHOP N SAVE SUPERMARKET shall -

(a) Install and use in its retail outlet, in place of Electronic Cash Registers, a Point Of Sale (otherwise known as POS) Terminal System with Bar Code Scanner;

(b) Shelf-price retail products subject to price control by displaying in a prominent position, either on the shelf or the place or such other vicinity, where the products are exhibited; a legible and conspicuous notice indicating -

(i) the product to which the notice relates;

(ii) product names;

(iii) product size ( if applicable); and

(iv) the maximum price per product.

(c) Issue to the purchaser a receipt fully indicating -

(i) the retailer's name;

(ii) product name;

(iii) product size (if applicable);

(iv) unit price and quantity price where more than one of a particular product is purchased;

(v) total cost of the product purchased;

(vi) amount tendered for purchases by customer;

(vii) the change due to the customer; and

(d) Comply with any other condition as the Prices and Incomes Board may from time to time deem necessary to impose.

Form of Receipt

3. The receipt issued to the purchaser under clause 2 (2) (c) of this Order shall be in the form of samples shown in the Schedule to this Order, subject to amendment as the Prices and Incomes Board may at any time deem necessary to direct.

Scope of exemption

4. The Exemption granted by this Order applies only to the requirement under the Order mentioned in sub-clause (1) of clause 2 for individual price marking of price controlled products sold by retail and in no way affects any other provision of such Orders.

SCHEDULE
(Clause 3)
Sample of purchase Receipt

Made this 19th day of October 2009

L. NAIMAWI
Acting Secretary
Prices and Incomes Board

Approved by me this 19th day of October 2009

J. V. BAINIMARAMA
Prime Minister and Minister
for Finance and National Planning