S.I. No. 166/1951 - Soap and Detergents (Maximum Prices) Order, 1951.

S.I. No. 166 of 1951.

SOAP AND DETERGENTS (MAXIMUM PRICES) ORDER, 1951.

I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Article 31 of the Emergency Powers Order, 1939 (S. R. & O. No. 224 of 1939), as amended by the Emergency Powers (No. 173) Order, 1942 (S. R. & O. No. 166 of 1942) (which Orders are continued in force by the Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946 (No. 22 of 1946)) and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows :—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Soap and Detergents (Maximum Prices) Order, 1951.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 22nd day of June, 1951.

2. References in this Order to selling shall be construed as including references to agreeing or offering to sell or to inviting an offer to buy.

3. No person shall sell by retail any soap, soap powder, soap flakes, soap chips or detergents of a class or brand mentioned in the Schedule to this Order at a price exceeding a price calculated at the appropriate rate indicated with respect thereto in that Schedule.

4. For the purposes of this Order any fraction of a halfpenny shall be regarded as one halfpenny.

5. Where a direction is given by the Minister in respect of any particular person or group of persons or in respect of any particular soap or detergent or classification of soap or detergent, the provisions of this Order shall, if and in so far as they are inconsistent with such direction, have effect subject thereto.

SCHEDULE.

MAXIMUM RATES OF RETAIL PRICES OF SOAP, SOAP POWDER SOAP FLAKES, SOAP CHIPS AND DETERGENTS.

PART I.

HOUSEHOLD SOAP.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Household Soap.	Maximum Rate of Retail Price.
		Per 12 ozs.
		s.	d.
1	Carbolic Soap	1	1
2	Household pale soap	1	0
3	Household soap of a description not mentioned at any preceding reference number in this part of the Schedule		10

PART II.

TOILET SOAPS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Toilet Soap.	Maximum Rate of Retail Price.
		Per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
4	Arbutus		9½
5	Buttermilk		6½
6	Buttermilk de Luxe		8½
7	Crean's Safeguard		6½
8	Cuticura	1	3
9	Delroi Castile		9½
10	Dixon's General Purpose Toilet		6½
11	Dixon's Lavender and Boracic		9½
12	Dromona		8½
13	Johnson and Johnson's Baby Soap	1	3
14	Knight's Castile		8
15	Lifebuoy Toilet		6½
16	Lux Toilet		6½
17	McCormack's Baby Soap	1	0½
18	Nabob Carbolic		6½
19	Nova Oatmeal		9½
20	Olivene		6½
21	Palmolive		6½
22	Santoi Buttermilk		7½
23	Vega Coal Tar		9½
24	Vega Hand Soap		7½
25	Wright's Coal Tar	1	0½
		Per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
26	Ryan's Pure Castile	1	4
27	Sanova Castile	1	5
28	Dixon's Bath Toilet	1	5
29	Dixon's Eau de Cologne Toilet	1	10

PART III.

SOAP POWDERS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Soap Powder.	Maximum Rate of Retail Price.
		Per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
30	Ozene Granulated Soap Powder		6
31	Persil		6
32	Rinso		6
33	Speed		6
		Per 12 ozs.
		s.	d.
34	Persil	1	0
35	Rinso	1	0
		Per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
36	Speed		3

PART IV.

SOAP FLAKES AND SOAP CHIPS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Soap Flakes and Soap Chips.	Maximum Rate of Retail Price.
		Per 3 ozs.
		s.	d.
37	Lux		7
38	Notime		7
39	Notime Lavender Scented		8
40	Ripple		6
		Per 6 ozs.
		s.	d.
41	Notime	1	2
		Per 9 ozs.
		s.	d.
42	Ripple	1	3
43	Notime Lavender Scented	1	8

PART V.

SCOURING POWDERS AND DETERGENTS.

Ref. No.	Class or Brand of Scouring Powder and Detergent.	Maximum Rate of Retail Price.
		Per container
		s.	d.
44	Erco		11
45	O'Kay Scouring Powder (small)		3
46	O'Kay Scouring Powder (medium)		8
47	O'Kay Scouring Powder (large)		11
48	Vim (small)		3
49	Vim (medium)		10
50	Vim (large)	1	1

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 18th day of June 1951.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.