S.I. No. 353/1947 - Milk (Retail Price) (Cork Sale District) (No. 2) Order, 1947.


STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1947. No. 353.

MILK (RETAIL PRICE) (CORK SALE DISTRICT) (No. 2) ORDER, 1947.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the joint operation of Section 52 of the Milk (Regulation of Supply and Price) Act, 1936 (No. 43 of 1936), and of the Minister for Supplies (Transfer of Functions under Section 52 of the Milk (Regulation of Supply and Price) Act, 1936 ) Order, 1941 ( S. R. & O. No. 29 of 1941 ), and of the Minister for Supplies (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1945 (No. 21 of 1945), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby order as follows, that is to say :—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Milk (Retail Price) (Cork Sale District) (No. 2) Order, 1947.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1947.

2. In this Order—

(1) the expression " the Cork Sale District " means the area as defined in the schedule to the Cork District Milk Board Order, 1937 ( S. R. & O. No. 91 of 1937 ) ;

(2) the expression " Bottled Milk " means milk contained in closed receptacles for sale retail in such receptacles ;

(3) the expression " fresh milk " has the meaning attached to it in the Milk and Dairies Act, 1935 (No. 22 of 1935), and the Regulations made thereunder ;

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

3. The maximum prices at which fresh milk (other than milk which is Highest Grade Milk within the meaning of the Milk and Dairies (Special Designations) Regulations, 1938 and 1939) may be sold retail in any place in the Cork Sale District shall be prices calculated at the following rates :—

(a) if sold as Bottled Milk

during the period of six months commencing on the 1st day of November, 1947—4½d. per pint.

(b) if sold otherwise than as Bottled Milk

during the period of six months commencing on the 1st day of November, 1947—4¼d. per pint.

4. The Milk (Retail Price) (Cork Sale District) Order, 1947 ( S. R. & O. No. 129 of 1947 ), is revoked as on and from 1st November, 1947.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 31st day of October, 1947.

(Sd.) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.