West Pakistan Foodstuffs (Control) Act, 1958.

This Act provides for the continuance of powers to control the supply and distribution of and trade and commerce in Foodstuff. The Government, seeing the need for maintain any foodstuff or for securing its equitable distribution and availability at fair prices, may provide for regulating or prohibiting the keeping, storage, movement transport, supply, disposal, acquisition, use or consumption thereof and trade and commerce therein. This Act aims at regulating the following matters: licences, permits or otherwise the manufacture of any foodstuff; controlling the prices at which any foodstuff may be bought or sold; regulating licences, permits or otherwise, the storage, transport, distribution, disposal, acquisition use or consumption of any foodstuff; prohibiting the withholding from sale of any foodstuff ordinarily kept for sale; requiring any person holding stock of any foodstuff to sell the whole or specified part of the stock to such persons or class of persons or in such circumstances as may be specified in the order; regulating or prohibiting any class of commercial or financial transactions relating to any foodstuff which, in the opinion of the authority making the order is, or is likely to be deterimental to public interest; etc.