S.I. No. 241/1981 - Maximum Prices (Breakfast Cereals) Order, 1981.

1. This Order may be cited as the Maximum Prices (Breakfast Cereals) Order, 1981.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 8th day of July, 1981.

3. (1) The maximum price at which a commodity mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order at any reference number may be sold in the manner specified in column (3) of that Schedule at that reference number is hereby fixed at the price mentioned in the said column (3) at that reference number.

(2) When a commodity mentioned in the Schedule to this Order is sold by retail in a manner other than that specified in relation to the commodity in the said Schedule, the maximum price at which it may be so sold shall be calculated at a rate corresponding to the rate specified in relation to the commodity in the said Schedule.

(3) Where flakemeal or cornflakes is or are sold in a packet purporting to contain a specified weight of flakemeal or cornflakes, the packet shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Order, to contain that weight of flakemeal or cornflakes, as the case may be.

4. The Maximum Prices (Breakfast Cereals) (No. 3) Order, 1980 (

S.I. No. 364 of 1980

), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Reference Number

Commodity

Maximum Price

(1)

(2)

(3)

1.

Flakemeal

32p per ½ kilogram

2.

Flakemeal

62p per kilogram

3.

Flakemeal

91p per ½ kilograms

4.

Cornflakes

57p per 375 gram packet

5.

Cornflakes

69½p per 500 gram packet

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry, Commerce and Tourism, this 7th day of July 1981.

HUGH McGLOIN,

A person authorised by the Minister for Industry, Commerce and Tourism to authenticate the Official Seal of the Minister.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

This Order fixes the maximum retail price for cornflakes and flakemeal.

The Minister for Industry, Commerce and Tourism, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 22A and 22C (inserted by the

Prices (Amendment) Act, 1965

(No. 23 of 1965)) of the

Prices Act, 1958

(No. 4 of 1958), as amended by the

Prices (Amendment) Act, 1972

(No. 20 of 1972), the Prices Stabilisation Order, 1973 (

S.I. No. 96 of 1973

), and the Industry, Commerce and Energy (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1980 (

S.I. No. 10 of 1980

), hereby orders as follows