S.I. No. 80/1948 - Intoxicating Liquor (Maximum Prices) Order, 1948.

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. No person shall sell by retail any of the undermentioned commodities at a price exceeding by more than sixpence per glass the price charged by him for such commodity during the month of September, 1947 :—

Whiskey, Gin and Brandy.

4. No person shall sell by retail any of the undermentioned commodities at a price exceeding by more than fivepence per glass the price charged by him for such commodity during the month of September, 1947 :—

Port and Sherry.

5.—(1) No person shall sell by retail any of the undermentioned commodities either in bottle or on draught at a price exceeding the price charged by him for such commodity during the month of September, 1947 :—

Beer, Stout and Porter ;

(2) No person shall sell by wholesale any of the undermentioned commodities in half-pint bottles at a price exceeding the price charged by him for such commodity during the month of September, 1947 :—

Beer, Stout and Porter.

6. For the purposes of Article 3 and Article 4 of this Order a glass shall be regarded as equivalent to one sixty-fourth part of a gallon.

7. The Intoxicating Liquor (Maximum Prices) Order 1947 (

S. R. & O. No. 332 of 1947

) and the Intoxicating Liquor (Maximum Prices) Order, 1947 (Amendment) (No. 1) Order 1947 (

S. R. & O. No. 400 of 1947

) are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 4th day of March 1948.

(Signed), DANIEL MORRISSEY,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.

S.I. No. 80 of 1948.

INTOXICATING LIQUOR (MAXIMUM PRICES) ORDER, 1948.

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, 1947)) 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 Intoxicating Liquor (Maximum Prices) Order, 1948.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 5th day of March, 1948.