Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Imported Hardwood and Softwood Timber) Order, 1960
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1960 No. 1211
RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES
The Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Imported Hardwood and Softwood Timber) Order, 196018thJuly 1960
8thAugust 1960
Whereas the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission, on a reference under subsection (1) of section 2 of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Inquiry and Control) Act, 1948(a), made a Report on the 23rd July, 1953, which was laid before each House of Parliament on the 20th October, 1953, and found that the principal practice which concerned them in relation to the supply of timber from abroad was the maintenance of Approved Lists (drawn up for each type of timber and administered by committees representing importers and agents dealing therewith), supported by agreements and undertakings (which insofar as they relate to softwood and hardwood are more particularly set out in Appendix (ix) and Appendix (x) respectively to the said Report and are hereinafter called "the original arrangements") under which—
(a) importers on the Lists undertook to buy only through agents on the Lists, and
(b) agents on the Lists undertook to negotiate sales only with importers on the Lists:
And Whereas the said Commission also found (b), that the original arrangements operated against the public interest and recommended that they should be abrogated and should not be replaced by any other arrangements or undertakings having similar effects:
And Whereas in March, 1954 an undertaking or assurance was given to the Minister of Materials that effect would be given to the recommendation of the Commission:
And Whereas the Monopolies Commission, on a reference under section 12 of the said Act of 1948, made a Report on the 24th July, 1958, which was laid before Parliament on the 31st July, 1958, and found that as respects hardwood timber and softwood timber the original arrangements had been replaced by other arrangements of which the effects were similar to the effects of the original arrangements:
And Whereas by subsection (4) of section 30 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956(c), it is provided that where before the commencement of that Act any undertaking or assurance has been given to a competent authority within the meaning of section 10 of the said Act of 1948 and the undertaking or assurance is not complied with, an Order may be made under the said section 10 to the like effect as the undertaking or assurance:
And Whereas by virtue of subsection (2) of section 1 of, and...
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