No. 83/1938:

RETAIL PRICES (DISPLAY) (No. 1) ORDER, 1938.

RETAIL PRICES (DISPLAY) (No. 1) ORDER, 1938.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (1) of Section 42 of the Control of Prices Act, 1937 (No. 26 of 1937), that, subject to the provisions of the said section, the Minister for Industry and Commerce may, whenever and so often as he thinks fit, make an order (in Part V of the said Act referred to as a retail prices (display) order) requiring every person who carries on in any specified area the business of selling retail any specified kind or kinds (defined in such manner and by reference to such things as the said Minister thinks proper) of a specified commodity to display in the manner required by such order at any premises, vehicle, stall, booth or other stand where he carries on such business in such area a list stating the retail price of each such kind of such commodity, and it is enacted by subsection (2) of the said section that a retail prices (display) order may relate to more than one commodity, and it is enacted by subsection (5) of the said section that the said Minister shall not make a retail prices (display) order in relation to any kind of a commodity unless he has received a price list report in respect of such kind of such commodity; but in making such order the said Minister shall not be bound by the terms or any of the terms of such report:

AND WHEREAS the said Minister has received a price list report from the Prices Commission in respect of the kinds of commodities to which this order relates:

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Industry and Commerce in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 42 of the Control of Prices Act, 1937 (No. 26 of 1937), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby orders as follows:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Retail Prices (Display) (No. 1) Order, 1938.

(2) This Order shall come into force on the 30th day of May, 1938.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. Every person who carries on in any of the areas specified in the First Schedule hereto the business of selling retail any kind or kinds (being a kind or kinds specified in the Second Schedule hereto) of the commodities specified in said Second Schedule shall display in the manner described in the Third Schedule hereto at any premises, vehicle, stall, booth, or other stand where he carries on such business a list stating the retail price of each such kind of each such commodity.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREAS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

KIND OR KINDS OF COMMODITIES TO WHICH THE ORDER APPLIES.

1. Batch Bread—that is to say, Bread which is not baked in containers and is sold or offered for sale in loaves of which the outside is not all crust.

2. Fresh Whole Milk.

3. Butter.

4. Cheese

5. Eggs.

6. The following fresh vegetables—

(a) Cabbages,

(b) Turnips, Swede and White,

(c) Carrots,

(d) Parsnips,

(e) Onions,

(f) Potatoes.

7. The following fresh fruits—

(a) Apples,

(b) Oranges,

(c) Pears,

(d) Lemons,

(e) Bananas.

8. Oatmeal, Flake.

9. Oatmeal, Pinhead.

10. Jams.

11. Sugar.

12. The following fresh meats—

(a) Beef (in such portions or cuts as are sold or offered for sale retail),

(b) Mutton (in such portions or cuts as are sold or offered for sale retail),

(c) Pork (in such portions or cuts as are sold or offered for sale retail).

13. The following cured meats—

(a) Beef—

(i) Brisket,

(ii) Tail End,

(b) Bacon (in such portions or cuts as are sold or offered for sale retail).

14. Pig's Head.

15. Sausages.

16. Black Pudding.

17. White Pudding.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

MANNER IN WHICH A LIST STATING THE RETAIL PRICE OF THE KIND OR KINDS OF THE COMMODITIES SPECIFIED IN THE SECOND SCHEDULE HERETO IS REQUIRED TO BE DISPLAYED.

1. The List shall show separately for each kind of a commodity and in characters of not less than one half-inch in height and of proportionate breadth—

(a) a description of each kind of each such commodity;

(b) if the sale is by weight or measure, the net weight or measure, as the case may be, and if the sale is by number, the number; and

(c) the retail price, but where more than one retail price is charged for the same kind of a commodity, the maximum and minimum prices shall be shown.

2. The List shall be displayed in or on the premises, vehicle, stall, booth or other stand where the commodities are sold or offered for sale in such a position as to be capable of being easily read by persons frequenting the part of the thoroughfare fronting, and adjacent to, such premises, vehicle, stall, booth or other stand.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for

Industry and Commerce this 21st day of April,

1938.

(Signed) R. C. FERGUSON,

Assistant Secretary,

Department of Industry and Commerce.