Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meals and Food) Notice 1975

  • revoked

Reprint
as at 1 May 1986

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Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meals and Food) Notice 1975

(SR 1975/51)

  • Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meals and Food) Notice 1975: revoked, on 1 May 1986, pursuant to section 110(4) of the Commerce Act 1986 (1986 No 5).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This notice is administered by the Ministry of Economic Development.

Pursuant to section 47A of the Control of Prices Act 1947, the Minister of Trade and Industry hereby gives the following notice.

Notice

1 Title and commencement

  • (1) This notice may be cited as the Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meals and Food) Notice 1975.

    (2) This notice shall come into force on 7 April 1975.

2 Application

  • This notice shall apply to all goods and services specified in the Schedule which are not for the time being subject to a price order or special approval under Part 2 of the Control of Prices Act 1947.

3 Ticketing of meals and food

  • (1) Every retailer who offers or exposes for sale any of the goods or services specified in the Schedule shall keep a statement of the retail price of those goods or services prominently displayed—

    • (a) in a prominent position in his shop window or at the entrance to his premises so as to be easily read by prospective purchasers; and

    • (b) in a prominent position in his shop or premises so that it is before persons offering to purchase those goods or services.

    (2) Where any of the activities mentioned in subclause (1) form only part of the activities carried on any premises by any retailer, he shall not be obliged to comply with paragraph (a) of subclause (1) if he keeps a statement of the retail price of the goods and services prominently displayed in a prominent position at the entrance to each part of his premises in which the activities mentioned in subclause (1) are carried on.

    (3) A retailer who offers or exposes for sale any of the goods specified in the Schedule and who keeps in a prominent position, in such proximity to all such goods as to be obviously in relation thereto, a ticket, placard, or label on which is stated in legible and prominent characters the retail price per unit of the goods, shall not be required to display notices in accordance with subclause (1)(b).

    (4) Nothing in this clause shall authorise any person to bring any notice, ticket, placard, or label into direct contact with food.

4 Occasional food premises, licensed premises and Trust premises excluded

  • Nothing in this notice shall apply in respect of any goods or services offered or exposed for sale by any person on any premises—

    • (a) which are occasional food premises as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Food Hygiene Regulations 1974 (SR 1974/169); or

    • (b) in respect of which a licence under the Sale of Liquor Act 1962 is in force or is deemed to be in force pursuant to the Licensing Trusts Act 1949 or the Masterton Licensing Trust Act 1947 or the Invercargill Licensing Trust Act 1950.

Schedule

Goods sold as separate items and not forming part of a meal

Bread rolls, whether plain, buttered, or filled

Bread slices, plain or buttered

Buns (including plain, fruit, iced, cream, and buttered buns but not including bakery-wrapped buns)

Sandwiches (including club, toasted, and open sandwiches but not including sandwiches made singly to the requirements of individual customers)

Cakes (including small cakes, gems, muffins, fruit squares, flans, and tarts but not including prepacked cakes)

Scones, pancakes, and pikelets

Savouries, pasties, and pastries of all kinds

Pies, being meat, potato, egg and bacon, fruit, custard, or textured protein pies

Cooked sausages, frankfurters, cheerios, saveloys, and hot dogs

Pizza pies and pieces thereof

Spring rolls, chicken rolls, curry and rice rolls

Hamburgers and other goods of the same kind (whether the filling consists of meat or not)

Cooked fish, cooked shellfish, and cooked crustaceans

Cooked potatoes (including chips and fritters)

Other cooked vegetables

Cooked poultry in whole or in pieces

Mixed Chinese-style food such as chop suey

Salads, including coleslaw

Hot soup or broth

Hot beverages, including chocolate, cocoa, coffee, and tea

Milk in glasses and milkshakes

Natural or artificial fruit juices or fruit drinks in glasses or cups (whether made of china, waxed cardboard, plastic, or other material)

Boiled eggs and Scotch eggs

Services

Meals (and associated charges or surcharges)

Light refreshments (and associated charges or surcharges)

The supply of items that may be ordered separately as a meal or as part of a meal

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of March 1975.

Warren Freer,
Minister of Trade and Industry.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice requires retailers of meals and of certain foods (largely of the luncheon and takeaway variety) to exhibit appropriate price lists or price tickets so that the prospective customers of those retailers will know, before they order or make their purchase, the prices charged.

Retailers who supply meals and light refreshments will need to provide 2 price lists. One of these must be in the shop window or at the entrance to the premises of the retailer. The other must be in a prominent position in his shop or premises so that it is before persons offering to purchase those goods or services.

Other retailers of the goods described in the Schedule will have a choice with regard to the second of these lists. Such retailers may, instead of providing this list, keep price tickets in close proximity to the individual goods.

Nothing in this notice applies in respect of any goods or services sold on occasional food premises (such as those used for school fairs) or on licensed premises or on Trust premises.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 20 March 1975.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Control of Prices (Ticketing of Meals and Food) Notice 1975. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the notice as at 1 May 1986, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)