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(2) Except as otherwise provided in this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for apples to which this Order applies, when sold by him otherwise than in accordance with the last preceding subclause, shall be the appropriate price per pound fixed in the Third Schedule hereto.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for pears to which this Order applies, when sold by him in bushel-case or half-bushel-case lots or in 10 lb. lots, shall be determined in accordance with the Fourth Schedule hereto.

(4) Except as otherwise provided in this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received by any retailer for pears to which this Order applies, when sold by him otherwise than in accordance with the last preceding subclause, shall be the appropriate price per pound fixed in the Fourth Schedule hereto.

(5) Where any apples or pears are sold in any lot exceeding 10 lb., but otherwise than in half-bushel-case or bushel-case lots, the maximum price per pound of any surplus (being less in every case than 10 lb.) shall be the appropriate maximum price fixed by subclause (2) or subclause (4) hereof, as the case may require.

(6) Where the transport expenses actually and reasonably incurred by a retailer in effecting delivery of any fruit into his shop or other premises (not exceeding in any case the charges that would have been incurred if delivery had been effected by a common carrier at current rates) exceeds 9d. per bushel-case, the maximum

retail price that may be charged or received by the retailer shall be the prescribed maximum price as aforesaid, increased as follows:

(a) In the case of fruit sold by him in bushel-case lots, the prescribed maximum price may be increased by the amount by which the transport charges exceed 9d. per case:

(b) In the case of fruit sold by him in half-bushel-case lots or in lots of 10 lb. or more (but otherwise than in bushel-case lots), the prescribed maximum price may be increased by a proportionate part of the amount by which the transport charges exceed 9d. per case:

(c) In the case of fruit sold otherwise than as aforesaid, the prescribed maximum price may be increased by ½d. per pound.

(7) If in respect of any apples or pears sold by a retailer the maximum price calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause is not an exact number of half-pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest upward halfpenny.

(8) The retail prices fixed by this clause are fixed as for delivery at the retailer’s shop or other premises occupied by him.

(9) Where any fruit is delivered by a retailer to a purchaser in a special container procured for the purpose from the Internal Marketing Division, the retailer may make a special charge, not exceeding 3d. (for the 14 in. container) and not exceeding 4d. (for the 16 in. or 17 in. container). Except as aforesaid, the several retail prices fixed by this clause include the price of the cases or other containers in which the fruit is delivered to the purchaser.

FIRST SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES OF APPLES TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

SECOND SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM WHOLESALE PRICES OF PEARS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES