New Zealand Gazette – 1983 – No. 114

Page 2475

✨ Commerce Act Special Approval



No. 114 2475

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 28 JULY 1983

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: MONDAY, 1 AUGUST 1983

Commerce Act 1975—Special Approval No. S 296 (Phosphatic Fertilisers)

PURSUANT to the Commerce Act 1975, and in accordance with the provisions of the Price Freeze Regulations 1982, I, Desmond James Gasson, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry, hereby make the following Special Approval:

  1. This approval may be cited as Special Approval No. S 296 and shall come into force on the 29th day of July 1983.

  2. (1) Price Order No. 250* is hereby revoked.
    (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 approval.

APPLICATION OF THIS APPROVAL

  1. (1) Subject to the next succeeding subclause, this approval applies with respect to phosphatic fertilisers of the following kinds manufactured or prepared in New Zealand and sold for use in New Zealand:
    (a) Superphosphate, including granular.
    (b) Serpentine reverted superphosphate.
    (c) Lime reverted superphosphate.
    (d) Aerial superphosphate.

(2) Nothing in this approval shall apply with respect to any phosphatic fertilisers sold in a quantity of less than one tonne.

FIXING MAXIMUM PRICES OF PHOSPHATIC FERTILISERS TO WHICH THIS APPROVAL APPLIES

  1. (1) The prices of phosphatic fertilisers fixed by this approval are fixed in respect of sales to purchasers of the following classes, namely:
    (a) Sales to a user—that is to say, to a person purchasing for his own use and not for the purpose of resale.
    (b) Sales to a merchant—that is to say, to a person purchasing for resale to storekeepers or to users.
    (c) Sales to a dairy company, as defined in section 2 of the Dairy Industry Act 1952, purchasing solely for resale to persons being suppliers of milk or cream to the company.
    (d) Sales to an incorporated farmers’ organisation, having a retail department conducted on a co-operative basis, and purchasing phosphatic fertilisers solely for the purpose of resale to its members.

(2) The prices for phosphatic fertilisers fixed by this approval are fixed in respect of sales for cash or for credit until a date not later than the 20th day of the month next following the month of delivery.

(3) Where any sale is made on terms allowing credit for a longer period than that mentioned in the last preceding subclause, the purchaser shall be entitled, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the contract of sale, to the benefit of the prices fixed by this order if in fact payment is made not later than the 20th day of the month next following the month of delivery.

  1. (1) Where any phosphatic fertilisers are sold for delivery “ex works” or “free on rail”, the maximum price that may be charged or received for any such fertilisers shall be the price specified in the appropriate Schedule to this approval in relation to the class of purchaser to whom the fertilisers are sold.


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🏭 Special Approval for Phosphatic Fertilisers Pricing

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
29 July 1983
Commerce Act, Price Freeze, Phosphatic Fertilisers, Pricing Regulation
  • Desmond James Gasson, pursuant to a delegation from the Secretary of Trade and Industry