S.I. No. 380/1979 - Maximum Prices (Breakfast Cereals) (No. 2) Order, 1979.

S.I. No. 380 of 1979.

MAXIMUM PRICES (BREAKFAST CEREALS) (NO. 2) ORDER, 1979.

The Minister for Industry, Commerce and Energy, 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 and Commerce (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1977 ( S.I. No. 306 of 1977 ), hereby orders as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Maximum Prices (Breakfast Cereals) (No. 2) Order, 1979.

2. This Order shall come into operation on the 7th day of December, 1979.

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) Order, 1979 ( S.I. No. 306 of 1979 ), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Reference Number	Commodity	Maximum Price
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Flakemeal	24½ p per ½kilogram
2.	Flakemeal	48½ p per kilogram
3.	Flakemeal	71½ p per 1½ kilograms
4.	Cornflakes	21 p per 250 gram packet
5.	Cornflakes	37p per 375 gram packet
6.	Cornflakes	45p per 500 gram packet
7.	Cornflakes	64p per 750 gram packet

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Industry, Commerce and

Energy, this 30th day of November, 1979.

OWEN O'HARA

A person authorised by the Minister for Industry, Commerce

and Energy, to authenticate the Official Seal of the Minister.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

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