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particular description, in relation to goods, include references
to a business which consists wholly of performing a service
or a service of that description in relation to goods.

(4) In this Ordinance references to an offer to perform
a service or to enter into a transaction shall be construed
as including a reference to a notification of the consideration
proposed for the service or transaction, whether made
before or after the performance of the service or the carrying
out of the transaction.

(5) References in this Ordinance to a person carrying
on a business include references to a person employed to
manage a business by the person carrying it on.

3. (1) The Governor in Council may by order fix the
maximum charge to be made, in the course of a business
of any class set out in the order, for performing, in relation
to goods of any description specified in the order, a service
of any description so specified; and it shall be unlawful
for any person in the course of any such business to perform,
agree to perform, or offer to perform, any such service in
relation to any such goods for a charge which exceeds the
maximum charge fixed by the order in relation to any
such business, and to any such goods.

(2) Any such order may fix different maximum
charges to be made in the course of businesses of different
classes for the same service in relation to the same des-
cription of goods.

(3) Any such order fixing the maximum charge to be
made in the course of a business of any class for performing
a service may require such steps as may be specified in the
order to be taken to bring the said charge to the notice of
persons to whom offers are made to perform the service
in the course of the business.

(4) Any such order may, instead of specifying the
maximum charge to be made in the course of a business of
any class for performing any service, direct that that
charge shall be computed in such manner and by reference
to such matters as may be provided by the order.

(5) Where any such order contains such a direction
as is mentioned in the last foregoing subsection as respects
the performance of any service in the course of any business,

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Power to fix
maximum
charges for
service in
relation to
goods.