Price Control Act · s 10B

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10B.
Offences
Any person who —
(a) sells price-controlled goods at the price, or performs or offers to perform any service in relation to any price-controlled goods, or hires or offers to hire any price-controlled goods, at a charge, which exceeds the maximum price or charge fixed by the
Price Controller under section 3B;
(b) knowingly purchases or offers to purchase any price-controlled goods or who knowingly pays or offers to pay for a service a charge which exceeds the maximum charge;
(c) carries on a business in the course of which price-controlled goods are normally sold and who has in his possession a stock of such goods who —

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(i) falsely denies that he has such goods in his possession; or
(ii) refuses, except with the permission of the Price
Controller, to sell such goods in reasonable quantities, is guilty of an offence against this Act:
Provided that it shall be a defence to a charge under paragraph (c)(ii) that the purchaser was unable or unwilling to make immediate payment of the price of the goods in cash.
Offence to obstruct Controller etc.  [S 53/2021]

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s 10BOffences

Any person who —

(a)

sells price-controlled goods at the price, or performs or offers to perform any service in relation to any price-controlled goods, or hires or offers to hire any price-controlled goods, at a charge, which exceeds the maximum price or charge fixed by the

Price Controller under section 3B;

(b)

knowingly purchases or offers to purchase any price-controlled goods or who knowingly pays or offers to pay for a service a charge which exceeds the maximum charge;

(c)

carries on a business in the course of which price-controlled goods are normally sold and who has in his possession a stock of such goods who —

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(i)

falsely denies that he has such goods in his possession; or

(ii)

refuses, except with the permission of the Price

Controller, to sell such goods in reasonable quantities, is guilty of an offence against this Act:

Provided that it shall be a defence to a charge under paragraph (c)(ii) that the purchaser was unable or unwilling to make immediate payment of the price of the goods in cash.

Offence to obstruct Controller etc. [S 53/2021]