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Thecontrol of Goods Act, 1962

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Preamble

PUBLIC NOTICE Supplement to theSle rra Leone Gatette Vol,CXIV, No. 13 dated l0th Ma rch, 19 83 PUBLIC NoTICE No. 4 OF 1983 Publshed 10th March, 1983 THECONTROL OF GOODS ACT, 1962 (ActNo. 6 1962) THE CONTROL OF GOODS RULES (Cap. 228) THE CONTROL OF GooDS (PRICE TICKETS) No. 2) ORDER, 1983. Short title. Inexercise of the powers conferred on him by rule 3 of the Volume VIT Control of Goods Rules, the Controller hereby makes the following Page 1914. Order:

Section 1

This Order shall be deemed to have come into operaticn on Commençethe 20th day of January, 1983. ment.

Section 2

(1)Any person who deals in any kind of goods specified in Price tickets.the Schedule to this Order shall cause to be attached to any such goods, displayed for sale by retail, a price ticket, showing the retail price of such goods in English. (2) Any such price ticket shall be clearly legible and shall be visible to the public. (3)Where any kind of goods specified in the said Schedule is displayed in different qualities or sizes,the price of cach quality or size shall be indicated by means of a price ticket.

Section 3

The Control of Goods (Price Tickets) Order and the Revccationof Vol. VII Control of Goods (Pric Tickets) Order, 1983 (P.N. 2 of 1983) Page 1922 are hereby revoked. and P.N. 2of 1983,

Schedule

LOCALLY PRODUCED GOODS Foods: Mcat fresh Rice Bread four Biscuits--Assorted Confectionery Conoo Janm Sugar Bullion Cube-Jumbo Cubeand any other brands Eggs Palm Oil Groundnut Oil Other Edible Ol Drinks: Beer Stout Soft Drinks Spirits--Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whisky etc. Tobacco: Manufactured tobacco Cigarettes Textiles: - Woven Fabrics Shirts Blouses Dresses Building Materials: Steel windows and Doors Flush Doors and Frames Sawn Timber Paints Wire Nails Cement Pharmaceuticals :Panadol Cafenol Miscellaneous: Laundry soap Toilet Soap Detergents Toilet Rolls Footwear-all kinds Matches Acetylene Oxygen Carbon Dioxide Candles Catridges Tyres Motor Spirits IMPORTED GOODS Foods: Biscuits--all kinds Butter and butter substitutes Cheese Fish, canned or preserved Flour (cake and bread flourn) Jams, marmalades, fruit jellies, ctc. Quaker Oats, prepared barley Breakfast foods and other farinaceous preparations Lard and Lard substitutes Meat-all kinds including canned meat Milk all kinds Milk-based infants' and invalids' foods Rice Salt Sugar Tea Vegetables, canned Vegetables, fresh-Onions, Potatoes, etc. Salad Cream Tomato Paste and puree Bullion Cubes, Soupbroth cubes -Maggi and other brands Cocoa Powder Other Beverages (Ovaltine, Bournvita, Horlicks, etc) Coffee extracts, etc. Condiments-Thyme, Black pepper, etc. Eggs Palm Oil Groundnut Oil Other Edible Oil Drinks: Ale, Beer, Stout and Porter Non-Alcoholic beverages Cider and Sherry Spirits, brandy, gin, rum, whisky Wines still and sparkling Lucozade and other substitutes Tobacco;– Manufactured and un-manufactured tobacco Cigarctlcs Textile, yarn and thrcad: Cotton sewing thread Cotton fabrics of standard types Grey unblcached White blcached Printed Piccc-dyed Colour-wovcn Special Textiles Fabrics: Cordage, cables, ropes and twines Blankets Footwear all kinds Stockings and Hose Shirts and singlets Waterproof clothing Miscellaneous : Traupence Pans Buckets, pails and basins Clocks and watches complete Candles China, Earthenware and Pottery Fish Hooks Lamps and lanterns Linoleum Matches, axes and hatchets Matches Scrap Metal constructional steel including joists, angles, channels: iron or steel tubes and pipes, including water piping: iron or steel rods and bars, including reinforcing rods; lead covered cable of any descriptioo; copper wire of any description; lead piping:; materials or articleswhich have been cut, crushed or melted so that their original form is unidentifiable; railway slippers and rails, except under tho authority ofa permit issued by the General Manager, Sierra Leone Railway suported by reccipts for the full quantity purchased from the Railwa:non-ferrous metal, not otherwise specificd herein, which bas notfirst boen offered to the Sierra Loone Railway and is supported accordingly by a certiicato that the metal is not required by the Railway: cast iron scrap metal including engine blocks which are required by the Railway: Soap-Toilet and common Travel goods, handbags, etc. Umbrellas Drugs Toothpastes Tooth Brushes Shaving blades paints Steel windows and doors Flush doors and frames Sawn timber Cement C.L. Sheets Iron and Steel Rods Pipes and Fittings Other building materials Caustic soda Tyres and tubes Vehicles Fishing nets Vehicles spare parts Printing papers Electrical Accessories Batteries for vehicles Transistor and Torch light bateries Engine oil, gearol ånd othor lúbricants Transistor radios Flasks Lamp and Lantern globes MADE this 7th day of March, 1983 D. Q. B. KAMARA. Controller. EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part the Order but is intended to indicate is gene ral purport) This Order requires persons dealing in controlled goods displayed for sale by retail to cause price tickets to beattached to such goods. It revoes the control of Goods (Price Tickets) Order (Vol. VII of Laws of Sierra Leone p. 1922). It also revokes and replaces the Control of Goods (Price Tickets) Order 1983 (P.N. 2 of 1983) which contains an error. PauNTeD BY THF GOvERNMENT PRNTINO DEPARTMENT, SERRA LONT GAZETTE No. 13 or 10TH MARCH, 1983

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