Price Order No. 1848 (Meat Retail)

PURSUANT to the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Price Tribunal
hereby makes the following price order.

PRELIMINARY

1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 1848 and shall
   come into force on the 7th day of August 1961.
2. (1) Price Orders Nos. 1800,* 1802,1 1804,2 1808,3 1811,4
   1812,5 1816,6 1817,7 1823,8 1825,9 1828,10 1830,11 1836,12
   1839,13 1841,14 1842,15 1845,16 and 184617 are hereby revoked.
   (2) The revocation of the said orders shall not affect the liability
   of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before
   the coming into force of this order.
3. (1) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “Abattoir district” means an abattoir district constituted in
   accordance with the Meat Act 1939.
   “Frozen meat” means meat that has been held in a freezing
   chamber until the major portion of the liquid content of
   the meat has solidified.
   “The said specification” means the New Zealand Standard
   Specification No. N.Z.S.S. 681 and entitled “Grades of
   Meat for Sale on the Local Market, and Definitions of
   Joints and Cuts”, declared by the Minister of Industries
   and Commerce under the authority of section 8 of the
   Standards Act 1941, to be a standard specification, and
   includes the said specification as from time to time
   amended.
   “Meat pricing districts” mean the districts described in the
   First Schedule hereto.
   “Basic prices” mean the prices set out in the Second Schedule
   hereto.
   (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.
   (3) All fresh meat killed in an abattoir district and sold or
   delivered to a purchaser during the currency of this order shall
   be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to be meat of the grade
   indicated thereon by the distinctive grade marking made pursuant
   to the said specification.
   (4) All fresh meat killed elsewhere than in an abattoir district
   and sold or delivered to a purchaser during the currency of this
   order shall be sold at prices not in excess of the appropriate prices
   fixed in this order for first-grade, second-grade, or third-grade meat
   had it in fact been killed and graded in an abattoir district.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

4. (1) Nothing in this order shall apply with respect to sales of
   lamb during the period covered by the dates set out in the Fourth
   Schedule hereto.
   (2) Except as provided in subclause (1) hereof this order applies
   only with respect to all retail sales of meat (whether fresh, frozen,
   or prepackaged chilled meat) in the meat pricing districts defined
   in the First Schedule hereto and of the kinds or descriptions
   specified in the Second Schedule hereto intended for human con-
   sumption and whether sold in an abbatoir district or in a non-
   abbatoir district.
   (3) 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.
   (4) The maximum prices fixed by this order apply with respect
   to sales by auction as well as to other sales.
   (5) The provisions of this order shall apply notwithstanding that
   any meat to which this order applies is sold otherwise than by weight.
   FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MEAT TO WHICH THIS ORDER
   APPLIES

5. (1) The basic retail prices of meat of the kind and descriptions
   specified in the Second Schedule hereto shall be the appropriate
   prices set against the respective kinds and descriptions in that
   Schedule.
   (2) The maximum retail prices of meat of the kind and
   descriptions specified shall be the basic retail prices plus or minus
   any adjustments resulting from the application of the provisions
   set out in the Third Schedule.
   (3) Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of this order
   and subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit, the Tribunal,
   on application by any retailer, may authorise special maximum
   retail prices in respect of any meat to which this order applies
   where for any reason extraordinary charges (freight or otherwise)
   are incurred by the retailer. Any authority given by the Tribunal
   under this subclause may apply with respect to a specified lot or
   consignment of meat or may relate generally to all meat to which
   this order applies sold by the retailer while the approval remains
   in force.

GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES

6. (1) No additional charges shall be made by a retailer for
   wrapping any meat to which this order applies, or for trimming
   or other incidental and customary services performed in relation
   to the retailing of any such meat.
   (2) If in respect of any lot of meat the maximum price calculated
   in accordance with the provisions of this order is not an exact
   number of pence, the maximum price of the lot shall be com-
   puted to the nearest penny.
   (3) Where a retailer sells any joint or cut of meat which is not
   in accordance with any one definition in the said specification
   because it comprises less than the total meat included in any one
   definition or comprises meat included in more than one definition,
   the maximum retail price per pound of such joint or cut shall be
   computed on the basis that the joint or cut comprises the kind,
   description, and grade of meat included in the definition of which
   the joint or cut forms part or to which the greater part of such
   joint or cut conforms.

RETAILERS TO EXHIBIT PRICE ORDERS AND TICKET MEAT

7. (1) It shall be the duty of every retailer whose business
   includes the selling of any meat to which this price order relates
   to keep a copy of the price order or a statement of the retail prices
   fixed thereby in respect of such meat prominently displayed in
   his shop in such a position that customers may examine the price
   order or statement without having to ask for its production or
   without having to obtain permission to examine it.
   (2) Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale any joints
   or cuts of meat to which this order applies shall affix to each joint
   or cut a ticket, placard, or label on which the total retail price
   of the joint or cut shall be stated in legible and prominent characters.
   (3) In the case of any meat to which this order applies which,
   in accordance with the customary practice within the trade, is
   offered or exposed for sale otherwise than by the joint or cut, the
   retailer shall affix to or keep in a prominent position in such
   proximity to the meat to which it relates as to be obviously in
   relation thereto a ticket, placard, or label showing in legible and
   prominent characters the retail price per pound or, where in
   accordance with the customary practice within the trade the meat
   is offered or exposed for sale otherwise than by weight, the price
   per unit.
   (4) In any case where meat to which this order applies is not
   readily identifiable with the description thereof set out in the
   price order displayed, the retailer shall affix to the meat a ticket,
   placard, or label giving a description so that it is readily identifiable
   with the description set out in the price order.

FIRST SCHEDULE
DEFINITIONS OF MEAT PRICING DISTRICTS