S.I. No. 168/1973:

PRICES (STABILISATION OF PROFIT MARGINS OF RETAILERS) ORDER, 1973.

PRICES (STABILISATION OF PROFIT MARGINS OF RETAILERS) 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 Retailers) 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 a retailer 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.

Clothing

Footwear

Drugs and medicines

Bed linen (including blankets, sheets, pillow cases, quilts, etc.)

Furniture

Eggs

Fruit and vegetables

Radio receivers

Television receivers

Gramophones and record players

Electric lamps

Electric shavers

Electric fires and heaters

Electric cookers

Refrigerators

Gas cookers and gas fires

Coal

Motor vehicles

Motor bicycles

Bicycles

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of June, 1973.

JUSTIN KEATING,

Minister for Industry and

Commerce.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order fixes the retailers' margins for the items specified in the schedule to the Order, at the levels which obtained on 23rd June, 1973.