S.I. No. 50/1990 - Maximum Prices (Petroleum Products) (No. 2) Order, 1990.

1. This Order may be cited as the Maximum Prices (Petroleum Products) (No. 2) Order, 1990.

2. (1) The maximum price at which a petroleum product mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order at any of the following reference numbers, that is to say 1 and 3, may be sold shall, in the case of a delivery, pursuant to one or more sales, of 455 litres or more of the product at a time, be a price calculated at the rate of the price per litre mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule at that reference number.

(2) This paragraph shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1990.

3. (1) The maximum price at which a petroleum product mentioned in column (2) of the said Schedule at any reference number may be sold shall, in the case of a delivery, pursuant to one or more sales, of less than 455 litres of the product at a time, be a price calculated at the rate of the price per litre mentioned in column (4) of that Schedule at that reference number.

(2) This paragraph shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1990.

4. The Maximum Prices (Petroleum Products) Order, 1990 (

S.I. No. 27 of 1990

) is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Reference

Petroleum Product

Price per litre in the case of a delivery, pursuant to one or more sales, of 455 litres or more at a time

Price per litre in the case of a delivery, pursuant to one or more sales, of less than 455 litres at a time

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

1

Grade 1 Petrol or Premium Petrol

56.20p

60.5p

2

Unleaded Petrol

–

58.3p

3

Autodiesel or Derv

48.63p

53.0p

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry and Commerce this 27th day of February, 1990.

S. MAC LUGHADHA

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

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order fixes of the maximum wholesale price and maximum retail price for premium petrol and for autodiesel, and the maximum retail price for unleaded petrol.

S.I. No. 50 of 1990.

MAXIMUM PRICES (PETROLEUM PRODUCTS) (No. 2) ORDER, 1990.

The Minister for Industry and Commerce, 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), and the Prices Stabilisation Order, 1973 (No. 96 of 1973), hereby orders as follows