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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 28

Price Order No. 2222 (Retail Lamb, Hogget, and Mutton Prices, Manawatu Meat Pricing District)

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. 2222 and shall come into force on the 9th day of April 1973.

2. (1) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   "Abattoir district" means an abattoir district constituted in accordance with the Meat Act 1964.
   "The said specification" means the "New Zealand Standard Specification for grades and definitions of joints and cuts of meat for sale on the New Zealand market" numbered N.Z.S.S. 681:1962.
   "Manawatu Pricing District" means the City of Palmerston North and the Counties of Rangitikei, Manawatu, Oroua, Kiwitea, Pohangina, Kairanga, and Horowhenua including all cities, boroughs, and town districts situate within or contiguous to the boundaries of any such county.
   (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 lamb, hogget, and first grade mutton had it in fact been killed and graded in an abattoir district.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) This order applies only with respect to all retail sales of first grade lamb, hogget, and first grade mutton (whether fresh or prepackaged chilled meat) in the Manawatu Meat Pricing District of the kinds or descriptions specified in the Schedule hereto intended for human consumption and whether sold in an abattoir district or in a non-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 this order applies is sold otherwise than by weight.

FIXING MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF MEAT TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) The maximum retail prices of meat of the kind and descriptions specified in the Schedule hereto for the Manawatu Meat Pricing District shall be the appropriate price set against the respective kinds and descriptions in this Schedule.
   (2) 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

5. (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 cents, the maximum price of the lot shall be computed to the nearest cent.

(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

6. (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.

SCHEDULE

MAXIMUM RETAIL PRICES OF FIRST GRADE LAMB, HOGGET, AND FIRST GRADE MUTTON MEATS