Control of Prices Act, 1932

Price orders.

26.—(1) Where the Commission recommend in relation to any scheduled commodity that the Minister should make an order under this sub-section fixing a maximum retail price for such commodity, the Minister may, if he so thinks fit and subject to the provisions of this section, make an order (in this Act referred to as a price (retail) order) fixing as the maximum retail price for such commodity such price as he thinks fit.

(2) Where the Commission recommend in relation to any scheduled commodity that the Minister should make an order under this sub-section fixing a maximum wholesale price for such commodity, the Minister may, if he so thinks fit and subject to the provisions of this section, make an order (in this Act referred to as a price (wholesale) order) fixing as the maximum wholesale price for such commodity such price as he thinks fit.

(3) In this Act the expression “price order” shall be construed as equivalent to the expression “a price (retail) order or a price (wholesale) order.”

(4) Every price order shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil.

(5) Every price order shall specify the following things, that is to say:—

(a) the date (which shall not be earlier than the date of the publication of such order in the Iris Oifigiúil) on which such order is to come into force;

(b) the duration of such order ;

(c) the area to which such order is to apply.

(6) Before making a price order in relation to butter the Minister shall first consult the Minister for Agriculture.