##### 25 Interim price increases (1) Where the Commission has served, or proposes to serve, a notice on a person pursuant to paragraph 19(1)(b), the Commission may at any time, on its own initiative or on the application of the person, give to the person a notice in writing stating that the person is permitted, from a specified date until the day that is, for the purposes of subsection 24(1), the prescribed day in relation to the first‑mentioned notice, to supply goods or services of a specified description in a specified locality on specified terms and conditions at a price not exceeding a specified price. (2) Where a notice given to a person under subsection (1) is in force, the person is not guilty of an offence against section 24 by reason only that the person supplies goods or services of the description specified in the notice in the locality so specified on the terms and conditions so specified, or on terms and conditions that are the same as, or substantially similar to, those terms and conditions, at a price not exceeding the price so specified.

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