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

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.