S.I. No. 22/1949 -- Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1949.

S.I. No. 22/1949 -- Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1949. 1949 22

S.I. No. 22/1949:

SOAP (MAXIMUM PRICES) ORDER, 1949.

I, DANIEL MORRISSEY, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946) as amended by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (Continuance) Act, 1948 (No. 18 of 1948)), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :--

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1949.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 31st day of January, 1949.

2. References in this Order to selling shall be construed as including references to agreeing or offering to sell or to inviting an offer to buy.

3. A person shall not sell by retail any soap, soap powder, soap flakes, or soap chips of a class or brand mentioned in the schedule to this Order at a price exceeding a price calculated at the appropriate rate indicated with respect thereto in that Shedule.

4. For the purposes of this Order any fraction of a halfpenny shall be regarded as one halfpenny.

5. Where a direction is given by the Minister in respect of any particular person or group of persons or in respect of any particular soap or classification of soap, the provisions of this Order shall, if and in so far as they are inconsistent with such direction, have effect subject to such direction.

6. The Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1947 ( S. R. & O. No. 338 of 1947 ) is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

MAXIMUM RATES OF RETAIL PRICES OF SOAP, SOAP POWDER, SOAP FLAKES AND SOAP CHIPS.

PART I.

HOUSEHOLD SOAP.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Household Soap	Maximum Rate of Retail Price
	Carbolic Soaps :	per 12 ozs.
		s.	d.
1	Crean's Best Carbolic	1	0
2	Dixon's Best Carbolic	1	0
3	Dixon's Household Carbolic		10
4	Dolan's Best Carbolic	1	0
5	Dowdall's Pure Carbolic	1	0
6	Green Cross Carbolic	1	0
7	Klymax Carbolic	1	0
8	Lifebuoy	1	0
9	McCormack's Household Carbolic	1	0
10	Safeguard Carbolic and Iodine	1	0
11	Warden Carbolic	1	0
12	Wizard	1	0
	Household Pale Soaps :	per 12 ozs.
		s.	d.
13	Barrington's XX Best Tallow Crown		11
14	Crean's XX Tallow Crown		11
15	Dixon's Best Tallow Crown		11
16	Dixon's Household Pale		9
17	Dolan's XX Tallow Crown		11
18	Dowdall's XXX Tallow Cown		11
19	Dowdall's Finest Primrose		11
20	Favourite		11
21	Gerard's Pale		11
22	Gladiator		11
23	Green Cross Pale		11
24	Keltic		11
25	McCormack's Household Pale		11
26	Revelation (Gerard's)		11
27	Ryan's Best Tallow Crown		11
28	Ryan's Finest Primrose		11
29	Ryan's Queen's Pale		11
30	Ryan's Household		8½
31	Sunlight		11
32	White Line		11
	Other Household Soap :	per 12 ozs.
		s.	d.
33	Blackthorn		8
34	Crean's Scouring Brown		9
35	Dirtshifter		9
36	Dixon's Pure White Curd		11
37	Dolan's Scouring Brown		9
38	McCormick's Scouring Brown		9
39	Ryan's Scouring Brown		8
40	Sambo		6½

PART II.

TOILET SOAPS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Toilet Soap	Maximum Rate of Retail Price
		per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
41	Arbutus		8
42	Buttermilk		6
43	Crean's Palm and Olive		6
44	Crean's Safeguard Toilet Carbolic		6
45	Delroi Castile		8
46	Dixon's Toilet		6
47	Dixon's Toilet Carbolic		7
48	Dromona		7
49	Lifebuoy Toilet		6
50	Lux Toilet		6
51	Nabob Carbolic		6
52	Nova Oatmeal		8
53	Olevine		7
54	Ozene		6
55	Vega Coal Tar		8

PART III.

SOAP POWDERS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Soap Powder	Maximum Rate of Retail Price
		per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
56	Ozene Granulated Soap Powder		6
57	Persil		6½
58	Rinso		6
59	Snowwhite		6
60	Sola		6
		per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
61	Speed		2
62	Tip Top		3
63	Titan		3

PART IV.

SOAP FLAKES AND SOAP CHIPS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Soap Flakes and Soap Chips	Maximum Rate of Retail Price
		per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
64	Dromona	1	2
		per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
65	Lux		7
66	Notime		7
67	Ripple		6
		per 9 ozs.
		s	d.
68	Ripple	1	5

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 28th day of January, 1949.

(Sgd.) DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

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