Food And Price Control Inspector V. Piyasena

1955 Present : Weerasooriya, J.

FOOD AND PRICE CONTROL INSPECTOR, Appellant, and
PIYASENA, Respondent

S. C. 594-M. C, Matale, 4,316

Control of Prices Act, No. 29 of 1950-Section 4-Price Order-Prosecution thereunder -Proof of Minister's approval of the price order not essential-Mode of proof of the price order-Judicial notice-Evidence Ordinance (Cap. 11), ss. 57, 78 (3).

Where a person is charged with contravening a price order made and signed by the Controller and published in the Government Gazette under sub-sections 1, 3 and 4 of section 4 of the Control of Prices Act, it is not obligatory on the prosecution to place before the Court the fact (whether as a matter to be proved by evidence or to be taken judicial notice of) that the price order has duly received the Minister's approval.

The Court may take judicial notice of a price order which is referred to in the Government Gazette. Alternatively, the price order, being a public document issued by a department of Her Majesty's Government, may be proved, under Section 78 (3) of the Evidence Ordinance, by a copy or extract of it contained in the Government Gazet

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