Competition Act, 1998 (Act No. 89 of 1998)

Regulations

Consumer and Customer Protection and National Disaster Management Regulations and Directions

6. Supply of goods
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6.1.A supplier must develop and implement reasonable measures to—
6.1.1.ensure the equitable distribution to consumers or customers, including small businesses, of goods contemplated in Annexure A; and
6.1.2.maintain adequate stocks of goods contemplated in Annexure A.

 

6.2.These measures may include limiting the number of items of the goods referred to in Annexure B which a consumer or customer may purchase in a defined period of time.

 

6.3.A retailer must prominently display a notice in each of its stores that states that it has developed and will implement the measures referred to in sub-regulations 6.1 and 6.2 and that it will adequality and diligently carry out these measures.

 

6.4.A wholesaler must take all reasonable steps to ensure that purchases by customers and consumers are not intended to circumvent the object and implementation of the measures referred to in sub-regulation 6.1.

 

6.5.The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, delete or add goods and services contemplated and listed in Annexures A and B.

 

6.6.The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, issue directions in terms of the regulations issued in terms of section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act published in Government Notice No. 318 of Government Gazette No. 43107 on 18 March 2020, should it become necessary, to set maximum quantities limiting the number of items of the goods referred to in Annexure B which a consumer or customer may purchase in a defined period of time.