Prices (Amendment) Act, 1972

Application of Acts to certain commodities and services previously excluded.

2.—(1) The Acts shall apply in relation to—

(a) activities carried on by railway undertakings and road transport undertakings, and

(b) prices for commodities, the prices for which are, or may be, controlled, regulated, or specified either under any other enactment or any instrument made thereunder, or in discharge of any statutory power, duty or function, and

(c) charges for services, the charges for which are, or may be, controlled, regulated, or specified either under any other enactment or any instrument made thereunder, or in discharge of any statutory power, duty or function, and

(d) charges for services wholly or partly of a professional character and remuneration under a contract of service for work wholly or partly of a professional character, and

(e) charges for services rendered in connection with insurance,

and, accordingly, in paragraph (a) of section 5 of the Principal Act “an air” is hereby substituted for “a railway, road, air” and paragraphs (b), (c) and (g) and “or insurance” in paragraph (h) of the said section 5 are hereby repealed.

(2) (a) A power—

(i) under any enactment, other than the Acts, or under any instrument made under such an enactment, or

(ii) arising in pursuance of a statutory power, duty or function,

to control, regulate or specify the price of a commodity or the charge for a service that is vested in a person other than the Minister of State in whom any such power under the Acts in relation to the commodity or service is vested shall not be exercised without the consent of that Minister.

(b) This subsection shall not apply in relation to a power vested in the Government or to any power to control, regulate or specify charges that is exercisable by statutory instrument made under—

(i) the Electoral Acts, 1923 to 1963,

(ii) the Seanad Electoral (University Members) Act, 1937 ,

(iii) the Presidential Elections Act, 1937 ,

or

(iv) the Referendum Act, 1942 .