Section 2: Price Control Committees.
(1) There shall continue to be for each State a Committee to be known as the Price Control Committee.
(2) The Committee in each State shall consist of-
(a)
the Permanent secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industries of the State, who shall be Chairman of the Committee and State Price Controller;
(b) the Commissioner of Police for the State, or his representative;
(c)
the Permanent secretary, Ministry of Information of the State, or his representative; and
(d) two other persons to be appointed by the State Commissioner for Trade and Industries.
(3) The representative in the State of the Federal Ministry of Trade and Tourism shall be the secretary to the Committee.
(4) It shall be the principal function of the Committee to advise and assist the Board on the implementation of this Act in the State for which the Committee is established.
(5) If in any State any office mentioned in subsection (2) above does not exist, the paragraph in question shall be construed as referring to the office which in the opinion of the Governor most nearly corresponds to the office so mentioned.
Cite this section
Section 2, PRICE CONTROL ACT (1977).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/price-control-act/section/2/