S.I. No. 338/1947 - Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1947.

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Soap (Maximum Prices) Order, 1947.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 24th day of October, 1947.

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 Schedule.

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 Emergency Powers (Soap) (Maximum Prices) Order, 1946 (S. R. & O. No. 69 of 1946) and Emergency Powers (Soap) (Maximum Prices) Order, 1946 (Amendment) (No. 1) Order, 1946 (S. R. & O. No. 145 of 1946) are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

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

PART I.

Household Soap.

Ref. Number

Class or Brand of Household Soap

Maximum Rate of Retail Price

s.

d.

CARBOLIC SOAPS

1

Crean's Best Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

2

Crean's Household Carbolic

0

11

per 12 ozs.

3

Dixon's Best Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

4

Dixon's Household Carbolic

0

11

per 12 ozs.

5

Dolan's Best Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

6

Dowdall's Pure Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

7

Green Gross Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

8

Klymax Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

9

Lifebuoy

1

1

per 12 ozs.

10

McCormack's Household Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

11

Safeguard Carbolic and Iodine

1

1

per 12 ozs.

12

Warden Carbolic

1

1

per 12 ozs.

13

Wizard

1

1

per 12 ozs.

HOUSEHOLD PALE SOAPS

14

Barrington's xx Best Tallow Crown

1

0

per 12 ozs.

15

Crean's xx Tallow Crown

1

0

per 12 ozs.

16

Crean's Household Crown

0

10

per 12 ozs.

17

Dixon's Best Tallow Crown

1

0

per 12 ozs.

18

Dixon's Household Pale

0

10

per 12 ozs.

19

Dolan's xx Tallow Crown

1

0

per 12 ozs.

20

Dowdall's xxx Tallow Crown

1

0

per 12 ozs.

21

Dowdall's Finest Primrose

1

0

per 12 ozs.

22

Favourite

1

0

per 12 ozs.

23

Gerard's Pale

1

0

per 12 ozs.

24

Gladiator

1

0

per 12 ozs.

25

Green Gross Pale

1

0

per 12 ozs.

26

Highway

1

0

per 12 ozs.

27

Keltic

1

0

per 12 ozs.

28

McCormack's Household Pale

1

0

per 12 ozs.

29

Ryan's Best Tallow Crown

1

0

per 12 ozs.

30

Ryan's Finest Primrose

1

0

per 12 ozs.

31

Ryan's Queen's Pale

1

0

per 12 ozs.

32

Ryan's Household

0

9½

per 12 ozs.

33

Revelation (Gerard's)

1

0

per 12 ozs.

34

Sunlight

1

0

per 12 ozs.

35

Tip Top

0

11

per 12 ozs.

36

White Line

1

0

per 12 ozs.

OTHER HOUSEHOLD SOAP

37

Blackthorn

9d.

per 12 ozs.

38

Crean's Scouring Brown

10d.

per 12 ozs.

39

Dirtshifter

10d.

per 12 ozs.

40

Dixon's Pure White Curd

6d.

per 12 ozs.

41

Dolan's Scouring Brown

10d.

per 12 ozs.

42

McCormack's Scouring Brown

10d.

per 12 ozs.

43

Preservene

5d.

per 6 ozs.

44

Ryan's Scouring Brown

9d.

per 12 ozs.

45

Sambo

7½d.

per 12 ozs.

PART II.

Toilet Soaps.

Ref. No.

Class or Brand of Toilet Soap

Maximum Rate of Retail Price

46

Arbutus

9d.

per 3 ozs.

47

Buttermilk and Assorted

7d.

per 3 ozs.

48

Crean's Palm and Olive

7d.

per 3 ozs.

49

Crean's Safeguard Toilet Carbolic

7d.

per 3 ozs.

50

Delroi Castile

9d.

per 3 ozs.

51

Dixon's Toilet

7d.

per 3 ozs.

52

Dixon's Toilet Carbolic

8d.

per 3 ozs.

53

Dromona

8d.

per 3 ozs.

54

Honey Brand Curd

5d.

per 3 ozs.

55

Lifebuoy Toilet

7d.

per 3 ozs.

56

Lux Toilet

7d.

per 3 ozs.

57

Nabob Carbolic

8d.

per 3 ozs.

58

Nova Oatmeal

9d.

per 3 ozs.

59

Ozene

7d.

per 3 ozs.

60

Sanova Castile

1s. 6d.

per 6 ozs.

61

Vega Olive and Palm

8d.

per 3 ozs.

62

Vega Coal Tar

9d.

per 3 ozs.

PART III.

Soap Powders.

Ref. No.

Class or Brand of Soap Powder

Maximum Rate of Retail Price

63

Ozene Granulated Soap Powder

7d.

per 6 ozs.

64

Persil

7d.

per 6 ozs.

65

Rinso

6½d.

per 6 ozs.

66

Snowwhite

6d.

per 6 ozs.

67

Sola

7d.

per 6 ozs.

68

Speed

2d.

per 3 ozs.

69

Tip Top

3d.

per 3 ozs.

70

Titan

3d.

per 3 ozs.

PART IV.

Soap Flakes and Soap Chips

.

Ref. No.

Class or Brand of Soap Flakes and Soap Chips

Maximum Rate of Retail Price

71

Dromona

1s. 2d.

per 6 ozs.

72

Notime

7d.

per 3 ozs.

73

Ripple

6d.

per 3 ozs.R

74

Ripple

1s. 5d.

per 9 ozs.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 22nd day of October, 1947.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 338.

SOAP (MAXIMUM PRICES) ORDER, 1947.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, 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) ) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—