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Prices Act 1975

1975 CHAPTER 32

An Act to amend sections 1, 2 and 9(4) of the Prices Act 1974 and to make consequential amendments in the Schedule to that Act.

[8th May 1975]

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(2), (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 S. 1(1) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II

F2 S. 1(2)(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. II

2 Regulation of price of food etc. E+W+S+N.I.

(1) [Section 2 of the Prices Act 1975 (under which the Secretary of State has power to make orders for regulating the price of food and certain other goods) shall have effect with the following amendments, namely—

(a) at the end of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) (under which retailers selling goods of which the price is regulated by an order under paragraph (a) of that subsection may be required to display information about the effect of the order) there shall be inserted the words “or to keep that information available in writing in accordance with the order under this paragraph and on request in accordance with the order to produce and permit inspection of the document containing the information;”;

(b) in subsection (1), after paragraph (b) as amended by the preceding paragraph there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(c) require persons selling, or who have after the coming into force of this paragraph sold, such food or other goods as are mentioned in paragraph (b) above to keep such records as may be specified in the order as being records which the Secretary of State condisers are needed for the efficient enforcement of an order under paragraph (a) above.,”and accordingly in subsection (4)(c) of that section (which refers to either paragraph of subsection (1)) for the word “either” there shall be substituted the word “any”;

(c) subsection (5) (which provides that no order under that section shall apply to any sale after 31st March 1975 but that the Secretary of State may for that date substitute a subsequent date which is not later than 31st March 1976) and paragraph (b) of subsection (8) (which prohibits the making of an order under subsection (5) unless a draft of the order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament) are hereby repealed;

(d) in subsection (6) (which provides for consultation before an order is made under subsection (1)(a) of that section) after the word “(1)(a )” there shall be inserted the words “or (c)”]and section 9(4) of that Act (under which none of its provisions requiring consultation requires further consultation in cases where the Secretary of State is satisfied that there has been sufficient consultation before the passing of that Act) shall have effect, in relation to consultation required by virtue of paragraph (d) of this subsection, as if the reference to the passing of that Act were to the passing of this Act.

(2) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that there are special circumstances in consequence of which it would be just to authorise a particular person to charge, for a sale of a thing of a particular description, a price exceeding the maximum price which by virtue of an order under section 2(1)(a) of the M1 Prices Act 1974 he is authorised to charge for a sale of a thing of that description, the Secretary of State may, by notice in writing given in such manner as he thinks fit, authorise that person to charge for a sale of a thing of that description a price not exceeding a price specified in the notice; and a sale in accordance with the authorisation shall be deemed to be permitted by the order.

(3) A notice giving an authorisation in pursuance of the preceding subsection—

(a) may contain provision as to the conditions subject to which the authorisation is given; and

(b) shall, where it contains such a provision, cease to have effect if any of the conditions is not satisfied; and

(c) may be revoked by the Secretary of State by notice in writing given in such manner as he thinks fit.

(4) In paragraph 11 of the Schedule to the Prices Act 1974 M2 (which provides that in relation to an offence in respect of an order under section 2(1)(a) of that Act the powers conferred by paragraph 9 of that Schedule may also be exercised by such an officer as is mentioned in the said paragraph 11), after the word “2(1)(a)” there shall be inserted the words “or (c)”.

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of S. 2(1) from the words "Section 2" to to the words "there shall be inserted the words "or "(c)" is in the form in which it originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

C2 The text of s. 2(4) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1974 c. 24.

M2 1974 c. 24.

3 Supplemental. E+W+S+N.I.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Prices Act 1975, and this Act and the M3 Prices Act 1974 may be cited together as the Prices Acts 1974 and 1975.

(2) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.

(3) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament or, as the case may be, into the Consolidated Fund any increase attributable to this Act in the sums which, under the Prices Act 1974, are payable out of money so provided or into that Fund.

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Marginal Citations

M3 1974 c. 24.