S.I. No. 84/1950 - Maize (Maximum Prices) (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1950.

S.I. No. 84 of 1950.

MAIZE (MAXIMUM PRICES) (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) ORDER, 1950.

I, JAMES M. DILLON, Minister for Agriculture, 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) ), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1.—This Order may be cited as the Maize (Maximum Prices) (Temporary Provisions) Order, 1950.

2.—(1) In this Order—

the expression " product to which this Order applies " means (a) maize, or (b) any product manufactured wholly from maize ;

the expression " the restricted period " means the period beginning on the 31st day of March, 1950, and ending on the 27th day of April, 1950 ;

the expression " the standard period " means the period which began on the 1st day of March, 1950, and ended on the 30th day of March, 1950 ;

(2) References in this Order to selling shall be construed as including references to agreeing or offering to sell or inviting an offer to buy.

3.—(1) A person shall not, during the restricted period, sell, by wholesale or by retail, any product to which this Order applies at a price greater than the highest price at which he sold by wholesale or by retail (as may be appropriate), such product during the standard period.

(2) A sale by or on behalf of Grain Importers (Eire), Ltd., is excepted from paragraph (1) of this Article.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 30th day of March, 1950.

(Signed) JAMES M. DILLON,

Minister for Agriculture.