Prices and Incomes Act 1967
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1967 c. 53 |
| Year | 1967 |
Prices and IncomesAct 1967
1967 CHAPTER 53
An Act to make, in relation to prices and charges and in relation to terms and conditions of employment, further provision to supplement or amend the Prices and Incomes Act 1966.
[14th July 1967]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Power to extend periods of standstill under Part II of Prices and Incomes Act 1966.
(1) Where by virtue of a reference to the National Board for Prices and Incomes under section 2(1) or (3) of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 either—
(a ) an increase of prices or charges is forbidden by section 7(3)(b ) or section 8(2) of that Act; or
(b ) the implementation of an award or settlement relating to terms or conditions of employment is forbidden by section 14(6)(b ) or section 15(2) of that Act;
and, before it ceases to be so forbidden, a report of the Board on the reference is published with a recommendation adverse in any respect to the increase of the prices or charges or to the implementation of the award or settlement, then for the period and to the extent provided for by this section the standstill provision (that is to say, the relevant provision of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 referred to in paragraph (a ) or (b ) above) shall continue to apply as it applied up to the date of publication of the report.
(2) The standstill provision shall continue to apply (subject as hereinafter provided)—
(a ) for a period ending ten days after the date of publication of the Board's report and, if within that period the Secretary of State gives notice of a proposal to make an order under paragraph (b ) below, then for a period ending thirty days after the date of publication of the report; and
(b ) if, after giving notice as aforesaid and before the end of those thirty days, the Secretary of State by order so directs, then for a further period extending until the expiration of the six months beginning with the date of publication of the reference to the Board or until such earlier time as may be specified in the order.
(3) The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect to regulate the extent to which the standstill provision is in any case to apply by virtue of this section, and other matters in connection with the operation of this section.
2 Imposition of standstill after increase of prices or implementation of award, but before publication of Board's report.
(1) Where section 8 of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 is applied to any prices or charges, or section 15 of that Act is applied to an award or settlement, the direction applying the section may provide that it shall apply in relation to those prices or charges, or to that award or settlement, by reference to a specified date not more than three months before the date of publication of the direction; and, if the direction does so provide, then Part II of that Act together with section 1 of this Act shall, in relation to the direction and in relation to matters arising therefrom, have effect as if—
(a ) in the case of a direction applying section 8 to any prices or charges, increases in those prices or charges made in the interval between the specified date and the coming into force of the direction had not been made; and
(b ) in the case of a direction applying section 15 to an award or settlement, the award or settlement had not been implemented in that interval.
(2) Where a direction applying section 8 or section 15 of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 makes provision in accordance with subsection (1) above,—
(a ) the notice giving the direction shall be published in the Gazette, but so much of section 8(1) or 15(1) as requires it to be published in the same issue as the text of the reference to the National Board for Prices and Incomes shall not apply (and accordingly a direction may be given in connection with a reference published before the coming into force of this section or the passing of this Act);
(b ) the direction may be given so as to come into force on a date after that on which the notice giving the direction is published;
(c ) section 1(2)(b ) above shall have effect with the substitution of the six months beginning with the date when the direction comes into force for the six months beginning with the date of publication of the reference.
3 Imposition of standstill after publication of Board's report.
(1) Where—
(a ) on a reference to the National Board for Prices and Incomes under section 2(1) or (3) of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 a report of the Board contains a recommendation adverse in any respect to an increase of prices or charges or to the implementation of an award or settlement (being a matter to which the reference related), but the standstill provisions referred to in section 1(1) above did not at any time apply to forbid the increase or implementation; and
(b ) it appears to the Secretary of State that (before or after publication of the report) there has been an increase of prices or charges, or implementation of the award or settlement, which does not accord with the recommendation of the Board;
then, subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may by order provide, as respects any prices or charges or any award or settlement to which the reference related, for section 8(2) or 15(2) of that Act to apply for a period not exceeding three months (beginning with the date of the order or a later date) as it would have applied, up to the date of publication of the Board's report, by virtue of a direction duly given before that date.
(2) An order shall not be made under subsection (1) above in consequence of a report of the Board, if the report was not published by a date within three months from the publication of the reference to the Board under section 2(1) of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 (whether or not varied under section 2(3)), nor shall an order be made as aforesaid more than six months after the date of publication of that reference; but this section shall apply notwithstanding that the Board's report was made, or the relevant increase of prices or charges or implementation of the award or settlement took place, before the coming into force of this section or the passing of this Act.
(3) Where an order is made under subsection (1) above, the relevant provisions of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 shall, for purposes of the order and matters arising therefrom, have effect as if—
(a ) in the case of an order applying section 8(2) to any prices or charges, increases in those prices or charges made in the interval between the day preceding the publication of the reference to the Board and the time from which section 8(2) is applied had not been made; and
(b ) in the case of an order applying section 15(2) to an award or settlement, the award or settlement had not been implemented in that interval.
(4) Before making an order under subsection (1) above the Secretary of State shall give notice of the proposal to make it; and the provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect to regulate the extent to which section 8(2) or 15(2) of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 is in any case to apply by virtue of this section, and other matters in connection with the operation of this section.
4 Modification or clarification of certain provisions of Prices and Incomes Act 1966.
(1) Section 16 of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 (which relates to the enforcement of Part II as regards terms and conditions of employment) shall have effect—
(a ) as if at the end of subsection (1) there were added the words ‘or (after the implementation is forbidden) to implement it in respect of employment at a time before the implementation is forbidden’; and
(b ) as if accordingly in subsection (4) for the words ‘to implement an award or settlement in respect of employment at a time when implementation of that award or settlement is forbidden under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act’ there were substituted the words ‘to implement an award or...
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