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(3) Where any goods to which this order applies (other than any goods specified in paragraph (a) of subclause (1) of this clause) are manufactured by a retailer and sold by him as a retailer the wholesale selling price shall be the price notified to the retailer by the Director of Price Control as the price at which he may sell those goods to another retailer whether or not he intends to so sell those goods.

(4) Where any goods to which this order applies are imported by a retailer and sold by him as a retailer the wholesale selling price in any such case shall be computed as if the goods had been imported by a wholesaler and sold by him to the retailer.

(5) The retail prices of any goods calculated in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this order shall be calculated by reference to the quantities and weights disclosed in the appropriate invoices.

8. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this order and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal, on application by any wholesaler or retailer, may authorise special maximum wholesale or retail prices in respect of any goods to which this order applies where special circumstances exist or for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise) are incurred by the wholesaler or retailer. Any authority given by the Tribunal under this clause may apply with respect to a specified lot or consignment of goods or may relate generally to all goods to which this order applies sold by the wholesaler or retailer while the approval remains in force.

FIRST SCHEDULE
FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF GOODS TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES
Group A

Column 1
Description of Goods

Column 2
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Purchase Price Allowed on Sales by Wholesalers to Retailers, Hospital Boards and Similar Institutions, Industrial Users, and Professional Users

Column 3
Maximum Retail Price

1. Chemical substances, their salts, compounds, or preparations

2. Drug substances, their compounds or preparations, including galenicals and pharmaceutical preparations

3. Medicinal and therapeutic substances, their compounds and preparations

4. And all other substances, their compounds and preparations customarily used in therapeutic treatment

When sold in other than retail containers, but not including any of the above chemical and drug substances, their salts, compounds, or preparations for which prices are fixed elsewhere in this Schedule or in any other price order

*The price computed in terms of the official schedules and rules as to prescription pricing issued by the Department of Health.

Group B--Drugs and Chemical Substances

Column 1
Description of Goods

Column 2
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Purchase Price Allowed on Sales by Wholesalers to Retailers, Hospital Boards and Similar Institutions, Industrial Users, and Professional Users

Column 3
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Selling Price Allowed on Sales by Retailers of Goods to Which the Provisions of Paragraph (a) of Subclause (1) of Clause 7 Do Not Apply

Special Forms of Presentation, i.e., Ampoules, Capsules, Tablets, and all other Forms of Compounded Medicinal and other Drug or Chemical Preparations (Excluding Photographic Preparations)
Ampoules, in all forms—
Packed in retail containers
Packed in other than retail containers
Capsules, in all forms—
Packed in retail containers
Packed in other than retail containers

Group B--Drugs and Chemical Substances--continued

Column 1
Description of Goods

Column 2
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Purchase Price Allowed on Sales by Wholesalers to Retailers, Hospital Boards and Similar Institutions, Industrial Users, and Professional Users

Column 3
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Selling Price Allowed on Sales by Retailers of Goods to Which the Provisions of Paragraph (a) of Subclause (1) of Clause 7 Do Not Apply

Cremors or medicated creams, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Elixirs, emulsions, and embrocations, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Herbs, and herbal preparations, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Lamellae or “medicated discs”, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Liniments, liquors, and lotions, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Mixtures—cough, tonic, etc., in all forms, packed in retail containers
Ointments, oculentae, and unguentae, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Opaque media, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Pastes, medicated, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Pessaries and suppositories, in all forms—
Packed in retail containers
Packed in other than retail containers
Pigments, medicated, and paints, medicated, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Pills or pilules, in all forms—
Packed in retail containers
Packed in other than retail containers
Poultices (including cataplasm kaolin, and poultice preparations), in all forms, packed in retail containers
Powders, stomach, etc., in all forms, packed in retail containers
Sera and vaccines, in all forms, packed in retail containers
Tablets, all varieties, except aspirin, ext. cascara sagrada, and soda mint in all forms—
Packed in retail containers
Packed in other than retail containers
Tablets, aspirin, ext. cascara sagrada, and soda mint, in all forms—
Packed in retail containers
Packed in other than retail containers

Uncompounded Forms of Presentation of all Drug and Chemical Substances Listed in Group A of this Schedule All forms as above when supplied, packed in retail containers, but excluding any drug or chemical substance provided for in any other price order
Goods in this group that are compounded- ed by the retailer or sold “by count”

*The maximum retail price shall be the price computed in terms of the official schedules and rules as to prescription pricing issued by the Department of Health.

Group C--Foods

Column 1
Description of Goods

Column 2
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Purchase Price Allowed on Sales by Wholesalers to Retailers, Hospital Boards and Similar Institutions, Industrial Users, and Professional Users

Column 3
Maximum Percentage of Wholesale Selling Price Allowed on Sales by Retailers

Medicinal, invalid, infants, etc., of all varieties, packed in retail containers, including milk and milk constituent powders and foods, in all forms, and including malt and preparations of malt in combination with medicinal substances, all kinds, and in all forms