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S.I. No. 53/1949 - Margarine (Maximum Prices) Order, 1949.
Table of Provisions (7)
Statutory Text (7 Articles)
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. For the purposes of this Order—
(1) the word " margarine " shall be deemed to include any mixture of margarine and butter ;
(2) any fraction of a halfpenny shall be regarded as one half-penny.
4. No person shall sell margarine at a price exceeding a price calculated at whichever of the following rates is appropriate, that is to say—
When sold to Wholesale Merchant
When sold to a R etail Merchant
When sold Retail
Rate per cwt.
Rate per cwt.
Rate per lb.
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
s.
d.
7
14
0
8
2
2
1
8
5. Where margarine is sold to a wholesale merchant or to a retail merchant and the purchaser requests the vendor to deliver it to specified premises, the vendor shall deliver such margarine free of charge either, as the vendor elects, to such premises or to the railway station nearest to such premises.
6. Where a direction is given by the Minister in respect of any particular person or group of persons or in respect of any particular margarine or description of margarine, the provisions of this Order shall, if and in so far as they are inconsistent with such direction, have effect subject to such direction.
7. The Margarine (Maximum Prices) (No. 2) Order, 1948 (
S.I. No. 346 of 1948
) is hereby revoked.
GIVEN under my Official Seal this 8th day of March, 1949.
(Signed) DANIEL MORRISSEY,
Minister for Industry and Commerce.
S.I. No. 53 of 1949.
MARGARINE (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 Margarine (Maximum Prices) Order, 1949.
(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 14th day of March, 1949.