New Zealand Gazette – 1974 – No. 8

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✨ Price Control Notices



210 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 8

as to be easily read by customers, a price list showing in
respect of each kind of fish offered, exposed, or available
for sale:
(a) The price per pound or, where the scales used by the
retailer weigh in metric weights, the price per 100
grams or per kilogram; or
(b) Where, in accordance with the customary practice
within the trade, the fish is offered or exposed for
sale otherwise than by weight, the price per unit
or lot.

  1. Every retailer of fish to which this notice applies, other
    than a retailer whose main business is the retail selling of
    fish, shall keep prominently displayed so as to be easily
    read by customers, and in close proximity to all fish to
    which this notice applies and which is offered, exposed, or
    available for sale, a price list showing in respect of each
    kind of fish offered, exposed, or available for sale:
    (a) The price per pound or, where the scales used by the
    retailer weigh in metric weights, the price per 100
    grams or per kilogram; or
    (b) Where, in accordance with the customary practice
    within the trade, the fish is offered or exposed for
    sale otherwise than by weight, the price per unit
    or lot.

  2. Every retailer, who offers, exposes, or has available for
    sale any fish to which this notice applies, shall affix to or
    keep in a prominent position in such proximity to the fish
    to which it relates as to be obviously in relation thereto a
    ticket, placard, or label showing in legible and prominent
    characters the kind of fish, the state of preparation, and—
    (a) The price per pound or, where the scales used by the
    retailer weigh in metric weights, the price per 100
    grams or per kilogram; or
    (b) Where, in accordance with the customary practice
    within the trade, the fish is offered or exposed for
    sale otherwise than by weight, the price per unit
    or lot.

  3. For the purposes of clauses 3, 4, and 5 of this notice,
    the price per 100 grams may not be rounded off but shall
    be exactly one-tenth of the price per kilogram.

  4. In any case where fish to which this notice applies
    is not readily identifiable with the description thereof set
    out in the price list displayed, the retailer shall affix to the
    fish a ticket, placard, or label giving a description so that
    it is readily identifiable with the description set out in
    the price list.

  5. The Control of Prices (Ticketing of Goods) Notice 1959,
    No. 1,* is hereby revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of February 1974.

W. W. FREER, Minister of Trade and Industry.
*Gazette, 1959, p. 731

Price 5c BY AUTHORITY: A. R. SHEARER, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1974


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🏭 Control of Prices (Ticketing of Fish) Notice 1974 (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
1 February 1974
Price control, Fish, Retail, Ticketing, Consumer protection
  • W. W. Freer, Minister of Trade and Industry