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

S.I. No. 22 of 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.