11. General powers of Price Controller

The Price Controller or any Deputy Price Controller or any person authorised in writing by any of them is hereby empowered —

to enter and inspect any premises in the occupation or under the control of any trader, manufacturer, producer, commission agent, clearing and forwarding agent or auctioneer;

to examine any books, accounts or other documents relating to the trade or business of any trader, manufacturer, producer, commission agent, clearing and forwarding agent or auctioneer, and to require a copy of any such book, account or other document or of the record of any transaction duly certified by the trader, manufacturer, producer, commission agent, clearing and forwarding agent or auctioneer to be produced to him, and further to require that any of those books, accounts or other documents be deposited at his office for examination; and where any of those books, accounts or other documents or records are in a language other than the English language and he is satisfied that the trader, manufacturer, producer, commission agent, clearing and forwarding agent or auctioneer can provide or obtain a translation thereof in the English language, to require such a translation;

to require in such manner as he may consider sufficient, any trader, manufacturer, producer, commission agent, clearing and forwarding agent or auctioneer to furnish verbally or in writing and in such form as may be required any information in relation to his trade or business; and

to require any trader, manufacturer, producer or commission agent to submit to him samples of any goods in which he deals.