S.I. No. 167/1973 - Prices (Stabilisation of Profit Margins of Importers and Wholesalers) Order, 1973.

1. This Order may be cited as the Prices (Stabilisation of Profit Margins of Importers and Wholesalers) Order, 1973.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 29th day of June, 1973.

3. The amount in money by which the price at which any commodity specified in the Schedule to this Order is sold in the course of business by any person engaged in trade or commerce, being an importer or wholesaler of that commodity, exceeds the price at which that commodity is bought by that person is hereby fixed as the amount in money by which the price at which that commodity was sold in the course of business by that person on the 23rd day of June, 1973, or if there was no such sale on the 23rd day of June, 1973, on the latest day before the 23rd day of June, 1973, on which there was such a sale, exceeded the price at which that commodity was bought by that person.

SCHEDULE.

Meat and meat preparations

Plastic materials and similar Goods

Dairy products

Chemical materials not otherwise

Eggs

specified in this Schedule

Fish and fish preparations

Manufactures of leather

Cereals and cereal preparations

Manufactures of rubber

Fruit, nuts and vegetables

Manufactures of wood and cork

Sugar and sugar preparations

Wood, lumber and cork

Honey

Paper, pulp and waste paper

Coffee, tea, cocoa and manufactures

Textile fibres and waste

thereof

Fertilisers

Spices

Ores and scrap metal

Animal feeding stuffs

Animal and vegetable materials not

Food preparations not otherwise

otherwise specified in this Schedule

specified in this Schedule

Coal, coke and briquettes

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages

Petroleum and petroleum products

Tobacco and cigarettes

Animal oils and fats

Hides, skins and furskins

Vegetable oils and fats

Oil seeds, nuts and kernels

Organic and inorganic chemicals

Explosive and pyrotechnic products

Mineral tar and crude chemicals from

Non-ferrous metals and manufacture

coal, petroleum and gas

thereof and other manufactures of

Dyeing, tanning and colouring

metal

materials

Machinery, electrical and non-electrical

Medicinal and pharmaceutical goods

Electrical goods and apparatus not

Essential oils, perfumes, soaps and

otherwise specified in this Schedule

similar goods

Transport equipment

Paper, paperboard and manufactures

Plumbing, heating and lighting

thereof

equipment, fixtures and fittings

Textile yarn

Furniture, travel goods and similar

Textile fabrics and articles manufactured

articles

from textile yarn or textile

Clothing and headgear

fabrics or both

Footwear

Non-metallic mineral manufactures

Professional and scientific goods and

Iron and steel and manufactures

similar articles

thereof

Watches and clocks

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of June, 1973.

JUSTIN KEATING,

Minister for Industry and

Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order provides that the profit margins to be taken by importers and wholesalers on the commodities specified in Schedule to this Order shall not exceed the actual cash profit margins taken by them on those commodities on 23rd June, 1973.

S.I. No. 167 of 1973.

PRICES (STABILISATION OF PROFIT MARGINS OF IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALERS) ORDER, 1973.

I, JUSTIN KEATING, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 22F (inserted by the

Prices (Amendment) Act, 1972

(No. 20 of 1972)) of the

Prices Act, 1958

(No. 4 of 1958), hereby order as follows