No. 116

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 2 OCTOBER 1980

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: MONDAY, 6 OCTOBER 1980

Price Order No. 180 (Butter)

PURSUANT to the Commerce Act 1975, I, Desmond James Gasson, 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. 180, and shall come into force on the 7th day of October 1980.

2. (1) Price Order 160* is hereby revoked.

(2) The revocation of the said price 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. 160, any approvals given under clause 13 of that price order or any approvals deemed by clause 3 of that price order to continue to have effect shall continue to have effect as if the said price order had not been revoked.

3. (1) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “the said Act” means the Commerce Act 1975; “the said regulations” mean the Butter and Cheese Marketing Regulations 1948†.

(2) Terms and expressions defined in the said Act, or in the said regulations, when used in this order, have the meanings generally assigned thereto by the said Act or by the said regulations, as the case may be.

4. The grades referred to in this order shall, as the case requires, mean:
   (a) Grades assigned at a grading store; or
   (b) Grades assigned in a manufacturing dairy as prescribed by regulation 26 of the said regulations; or
   (c) Grades constructively assigned pursuant to subclause (4) of regulation 26 of the said regulations.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

5. This order applies with respect to all sales in New Zealand by way of wholesale, or retail, of any butter (within the meaning of the said regulations) manufactured in New Zealand, except butter sold as ships’ stores for vessels sailing beyond New Zealand.

MAXIMUM PRICES FOR SALES OF BUTTER BY WAY OF WHOLESALE, OR BY A MANUFACTURER TO A WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR, TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

6. Subject to the provisions of this order, the several maximum prices at which butter prepared in 500 gram packs or smaller portions may be sold by way of sale by wholesale shall be the following:

(a) In the case of salted creamery butter the standard of quality of which is not lower than First Grade, the price of 79.09c a 500 gram pack or 41.82c a 250 gram pack.

(b) In the case of salted creamery butter, the standard of quality of which is Second Grade, the price of 78.96c a 500 gram pack.

(c) In the case of whey butter the standard of quality of which is not lower than Second Grade, the price of 76.36c a 500 gram pack.

7. The price of butter sold in bulk by way of wholesale, being butter of one of the kinds and standards of quality set out in clause 6 of this order, shall be 3 cents for each kilogram less than the respective price prescribed for butter of that kind and standard of quality by the said clause 6 hereof.

8. The price of unsalted creamery butter the standard of quality of which is not lower than First Grade, and which is sold, whether in bulk or pats, by way of sale by wholesale as aforesaid shall be 1c per 500 grams more than the respective price prescribed for salted creamery butter by the foregoing provisions of clause 6 of this order.