https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171701 A price control order for mustard oil issued under the Essential Commodities Act was treated as deriving protection from the parent enactment where the empowering provision itself was protected, provided the order remained within Section 3. Price fixation under Section 3(1) and Section 3(2)(c) was explained as a consumer-oriented measure to secure supply and equitable distribution at fair prices, and the Government could adopt a temporary, empirical policy even without assuring producer profit or strict cost parity. A common country-wide price was not invalid merely because regional costs differed, and the order was not shown to be patently discriminatory, unreasonable, or beyond statutory power. en-us Tue, 21 Feb 1978 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:05:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171701 A price control order for mustard oil issued under the Essential Commodities Act was treated as deriving protection from the parent enactment where the empowering provision itself was protected, provided the order remained within Section 3. Price fixation under Section 3(1) and Section 3(2)(c) was explained as a consumer-oriented measure to secure supply and equitable distribution at fair prices, and the Government could adopt a temporary, empirical policy even without assuring producer profit or strict cost parity. A common country-wide price was not invalid merely because regional costs differed, and the order was not shown to be patently discriminatory, unreasonable, or beyond statutory power. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Feb 1978 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=171701