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| (1) The Authority may, for the protection of the consumer
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| | (b) issue special directions to any class of manufacturers or traders, specifying
| | | (i) the times during which and the places at which , such goods may be sold ; and |
| (ii) any other conditions as to the manufacturing importing, marketing, storing, selling And stocking, of any goods. |
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| (2) Every direction issued by the Authority under subsection (1) shall he published in the Gazette and in at least one Sinhala, one Tamil and one English newspaper. |
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| (3) Any manufacturer or trader who fails to comply with any direction issued under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. |
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| (4) Any person who removes, alters, obliterates, erases or defaces any label, description or price mark on any goods in respect of which a direction under subsection (1) has been issued, or sells or offers for sale any such goods from or on which the label, description or price mark has been removed. altered, obliterated, erased or defaced, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts