FIJI

[Legal Notice No. 63]

COUNTER-INFLATION ACT
(CAP. 73)
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Counter - Inflation (Price Control) (Liquid Milk)
(Ex-factory Wholesale Price) (No. 17) Order 2009

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 9 and 18 of the Counter-Inflation Act, the Prices and Incomes Board, with the approval of the Prime Minister & Minister for Finance and National Planning makes the following Order -

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Counter-Inflation (Price Control) (Liquid Milk) (Ex-factory Wholesale Price) (No. 17) Order 2009 and comes into force on 1st September, 2009.

Interpretation

2. In this Order -

"delivery cost" means the lesser of the following -

(a) the actual cost incurred; or

(b) the cost which would probably have been incurred for the provision of the same service under similar conditions in the ordinary course of business, if the service had been carried out by an independent person usually engaged in the business of carriage.

Maximum prices schedule

3.-(l) Subject to subparagraph (2) below, the price set out in Part 1 of the Schedule are the maximum price at which the goods mentioned therein may be sold and delivered ex-factory.

(2) Where the maximum price set in the Schedule is required to be rounded up by reason of the cessation of the 1 cent and cents denominations, the consequential increase in the price of that item does not constitute a contravention of this Order.

(3) Ex-factory wholesale delivered prices apply from the factory to the areas designated in Part 2 of the Schedule.

(4) Part 3 of the Schedule applies in respect of areas not designated in Part 2.

Value Added Tax (VAT)

4. Ex-factory wholesalers must state Value Added Tax (VAT) separately in the invoice provided at the time of sale.

Revocation

5. The Counter-Inflation (Price Control) (Liquid Milk) (Ex-factory Wholesale Price) (No. 11) Order 2008 revoked.

Schedule

PART 1

GOODS	QUANTITY	EX-FACTORY WHOLESALE DELIVERED PRICE EXCLUSIVE OF VAT	
LIQUID MILK		$     c	
UHT Full Cream	12 x 1 litre	18.74	

PART 2

Ex-factory wholesale delivered price apply to the following areas -

(a) The cities of Suva and Lautoka;

(b) The towns of Ba, Lami, Nadi, Sigatoka, Tavua and Nausori;

(c)	 (i) from the prescribed boundary of the city of Suva to the prescribed boundary of the town of Nausori, to a width of 3 kilometres from the centre point of the King’s Road on both sides of that road;

(ii) from the prescribed boundary of the city of Lautoka to the prescribed boundary of the town of Nadi, to a width of 3 kilometres from the centre point of the Queen’s Road on both sides of the road; and.

(iii) from the prescribed boundary of the city of Lautoka to the prescribed boundary of the town of Ba, to a width of 3 kilometres from the centre point of the King’s Road on both sides of the road; and

(d) the areas on the island of Viti Levu within a radius of 5 kilometres from any of the post offices situated at Korovou, Navua or Rakiraki.

PART 3

(a) A reasonable delivery costs may be charged for delivery to any area on the island of Viti Levu not designated in Part 2:

(b) A delivery cost must relate only to the cost of delivery beyond the areas designated in Part 2.

(c) Ex-factory wholesalers may, in addition to the prices specified in Part I of the Schedule, charge a delivery cost if they deliver to any place outside Viti Levu.

MADE this 24th day of August 2009

L. NAIMAWI
Acting Secretary
Prices and Incomes Board

APPROVED by me this 24th day of August 2009.

J. V. BAINIMARAMA
Prime Minister and Minister
for Finance and National Planning