No. 18

391

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 1977
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON: FRIDAY, 18 FEBRUARY 1977
Price Order No. 48 (Bread)

PURSUANT to the Commerce Act 1975, I, Peter Edward Donovan, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry, hereby make the following price order:

PRELIMINARY

1. This order may be cited as Price Order No. 48 and shall come into force on the 27th day of February 1977.

2. (1) Price Order No. 40* shall be revoked on the coming into force of this order.
   (2) The revocation of the said order shall not affect the liability of any person for any offence in relation thereto committed before the coming into force of this order.
   (3) Notwithstanding the revocation of Price Order No. 40, any approvals given under clause 11 of that price order shall continue to have effect as if the said order had not been revoked.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. This order applies to all bread referred to in clauses 4 and 5 of this order sold in New Zealand by a wholesaler or by a retailer, but does not apply to bread sold on Stewart Island or to bread sold as part of a meal.

FIXING MAXIMUM WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PRICES OF BREAD TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. Subject to the provisions of this order, the prices set out in Part I of the First Schedule to this order shall be the maximum retail prices which may be charged or received for any bread to which this order applies and which is customarily known as:
   (a) Standard white bread.
   (b) Standard brown bread.
   (c) Wholemeal bread.
   (d) Vienna bread.
   (e) Wheat-germ bread.

5. Subject to the provisions of this order, the prices set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this order shall be the maximum retail prices which may be charged or received for any bread to which this order applies and which is customarily known as protein-enriched bread, that is, bread in the making of which there is for each 100 kg of flour used not less than 3.75 kg of dry gluten and not less than 2.4 percent of nitrogen calculated on a dry basis. Nothing in this clause shall apply to loaves of protein-enriched bread the maximum prices of which are fixed by special approval under section 90 of the Commerce Act 1975.

6. Subject to the provisions of this order, the prices set out in Part II of the First and Second Schedules to this order shall be the maximum retail prices which may be charged or received for any bread described in clauses 4, and 5 of this order which is sliced or unsliced and enclosed and securely wrapped at the bakehouse in clean unused paper.

7. Where a retailer divides a loaf of bread to which this order applies (other than a 350 g loaf) into two approximately equal parts, the maximum retail price for each of those parts shall be half the maximum authorised price for the undivided loaf as set out in Part I of the First Schedule or as the case may require Part I of the Second Schedule to this order, provided that if the price so calculated contains fractions of a cent the maximum authorised price shall be increased, or as the case may require, reduced to the nearest whole cent.

8. Subject to the provisions of this order, the maximum wholesale prices that may be charged or received for any bread subject to this order shall be the maximum retail prices set out in the First and Second Schedule to this order reduced by 12½ percent.

9. The wholesale prices fixed by this order apply to bread delivered to the retailer's premises. In any case where bread is not so delivered the prices shall be such as are agreed upon between the baker and the retailer, or failing such agreement, as may be approved by the Secretary.