Num. 94 1473

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1944

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1944

Price Order No. 291 (Meat sold in Abattoir Districts)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following Price Order:—

PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 291.
2. This Order shall come into force—
   In the Wellington Abattoir District on the 1st day of December, 1944 :
   In the Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin Abattoir Districts on the 4th day of December, 1944 :
   In all other abattoir districts on the 1st day of January, 1945.
3. (1) Price Order No. 219† is hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said Price Order shall not affect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this Order.
4. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “Abattoir district” means an abattoir district constituted in accordance with the Meat Act, 1939 :
   “The said specification” means the New Zealand Emergency Standard Specification (No. N.Z.S.S. E. 79) entitled “Grades of Meat for Sale on the Local Market and Definitions of Joints and Cuts,” issued by the New Zealand Standards Institute under the authority of the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Industries and Commerce, and, subject to the proviso hereto, includes any amendment of the said specification that may hereafter be made :
   Provided that, for the purposes of this Order, no amendment made after the date of this Order shall have any effect before the expiration of seven days after the date of publication in the Gazette of a notification of the making of the amendment.
   (2) References in this Order to the kind, description, or grade of any meat shall be deemed respectively to be references to the kind, description, or grade of such meat within the meaning and for the purposes of the said specification.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

5. (1) This Order applies only with respect to retail sales of meat intended for human consumption and sold within an abattoir district.
   (2) All meat sold or delivered to a purchaser during the currency of this Order shall be deemed to be intended for human consumption unless it is sold for some other specific purpose.
   (3) The maximum prices fixed by this Order apply with respect to sales by auction as well as to other sales.
   (4) The provisions of this Order shall apply notwithstanding that any meat to which the Order applies is sold otherwise than by weight.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MEAT TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

6. (1) The basic retail prices of meat of the kinds and descriptions specified in the First Schedule hereto shall be the appropriate prices prescribed in that Schedule.
   (2) Except where an increase in the retail price of any such meat is authorized in accordance with the Second Schedule hereto, or in accordance with subclause (2) of clause 7 hereof, the maximum retail price of any such meat shall be calculated at the rate of the appropriate basic price fixed in accordance with the First Schedule hereto.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057. † Gazette, 13th April, 1944, Vol. I, page 365.