Loi du 30 juin 1961 ayant pour objet \n1) d'habiliter le Grand-Duc à réglementer certaines matières; \n2) d'abroger et de remplacer l'arrêté grand-ducal du 8 novembre 1944 portant création d'un Office des prix.

AI-assisted research summary: This law authorizes the Grand Duke to regulate certain matters and says it will repeal and replace a 1944 decree creating an Office of Prices.

AI-assisted research summary: The Grand-Duc is empowered, until 31 December 1962, to issue and amend certain public-administration regulations on economic matters, subject to specified approvals and exceptions.

AI-assisted research summary: Regulations under article 1 may set penalties up to 5 years’ imprisonment and a 1,000,000-franc fine, alone or together, and may also provide confiscation, closure, and publication costs.

AI-assisted research summary: Regulations and orders made under this law stay in force until they are otherwise provided for.

AI-assisted research summary: This article repeals the 8 November 1944 Grand Ducal order that created the price office, as later amended.

AI-assisted research summary: This article lets certain prices and related payments be fixed, controlled, and supervised, mainly through grand-ducal orders or, in urgent cases, by the Minister of Economic Affairs.

AI-assisted research summary: The prices office has an attached prices commission, appointed by the Minister of Economic Affairs, with up to 12 members; the Minister or the prices office may ask the commission for its opinion on price-fixing questions.

AI-assisted research summary: It forbids charging prices above the fixed prices; if no price is fixed, it forbids asking more than the normal price.

AI-assisted research summary: L’office des prix et ses agents have broad investigation and inspection powers, and the office must receive and examine reports, complaints, and denunciations.

AI-assisted research summary: Les conseils communaux peuvent nommer des commissions locales pour contrôler les prix maxima et l’affichage des prix. Le bourgmestre en est président d’office, avec remplacement possible en cas d’empêchement. La commission compte au plus 5 membres, ou jusqu’à 9 dans les localités de plus de 20 000 habitants.

AI-assisted research summary: The local control commission president must file a report on infringements, the local commissions must report price anomalies to the price office, and commission members may not inspect books/accounts or confiscate goods or accounting records.

AI-assisted research summary: Article 11 sets criminal penalties for infringements and attempted infringements, and gives the Minister of Economic Affairs a settlement power in some cases.

AI-assisted research summary: Old communications, notices, and instructions continue in force until changed; certain unpublished general measures stop being in force on 1 January 1963 unless published in the Mémorial before then.