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Ordinance
No. 34-1943

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Ch. 30. No. 18.] Services (Charges Control),

 

 

CHAPTER 30. No. 18.
SERVICES (CHARGES CONTROL).

AN ORDINANCE TO MAKE PROVISION TO PREVENT, DURING

, THE PRESENT EMERGENCY, EXCESSIVE CHARGES BEING
MADE FOR PERFORMING SERVICES IN RELATION TO
GOODS (INCLUDING HIRING AND SUBJECTING TO A
PROCESS).

[7th October, 1943. ]

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Services
(Charges Control) Ordinance.

(2) This Ordinance shall continue in force until such
date as the Governor may by proclamation declare to be
the date on which the emergency that was the occasion
of the passing of this Ordinance came to an end, and shall
then expire except as respects things previously done or
omitted to be done.

2. (1) In this Ordinance

“business unless the context otherwise requires,
includes a branch of a business;
performance of a charge-controlled service’? in
relation to any business, means the performance in
relation to goods of any description of a service for the
performance of which, in the course of that business
and in relation to those goods, a maximum charge has
been fixed by an order for the time being in force
under this Ordinance.

(2) References in this Ordinance to the performance
of a service in relation to goods include references to the
hiring of goods and the subjecting of goods to any process.

(3) References in this Ordinance to a business that
includes the performance of a service, or a service of any