Government Decree No. 21 / 1953 Coll.
Regulation on civil trade control
Valid
Effective from 15.04.1953
21.
Government Regulation
of 25 March 1953
on civil trade control.
The Government of the Czechoslovak Republic orders pursuant to § 41 paragraph 2 (d) and (e) of Act No. 241 / 1948 Coll., on the first five-year Economic Plan for the Development of the Czechoslovak Republic (Act on the Five-Year Plan):
A mission of civil control.
Civil inspectors shall carry out checks on the activities of retail stores and mass caterers and shall make suggestions on how to address the deficiencies identified. Through the implementation of civil control, workers are involved directly in improving and streamlining the work of socialist trade.
Scope.
The activities of civil inspectors shall apply to retail outlets and joint catering establishments for national, national and municipal enterprises, with the exception of those in the field of national defence and national security ministries.
Civil control organization.
(1) Citizens' inspectors are elected at the membership meetings of the Revolutionary Trade Union Group and appointed by the local national committees on a proposal from the women's committees.
(2) The District National Committee shall issue citizens' inspectors with a licence authorising them to perform their duties. The licence shall indicate the circuit in which the civil controller performs the function and the period for which it is designated. If the district national committee objects to an elected or appointed civil controller, it shall immediately communicate them to the organisation which sent it to the office and shall discuss any new choice or provision of another person.
(3) The District National Committee will designate civil inspectors in an agreement with the organisations which have sent them, the perimeter of the site, as a rule, in the vicinity of their workplace or residence.
(4) Civil controllers shall be responsible for carrying out their activities to the organisations which have sent them to this office and to the national district committee which has issued them with a certificate authorising them to carry out their civil checks.
(5) The term of office of civil controllers shall be one year. If a civil controller has proven himself and has been re-elected or proposed by organisations that have already sent him to the post, the District National Committee shall provide him with a different scope.
(6) Civil inspectors shall participate in the training and instruction activities organised by the Regional National Committee.
The function of civil controllers is honorable. Civil controllers shall carry out their duties outside their duties.
Withdrawal from function.
(1) It removes civil controllers from their function of organisation which has sent them to that function. The civil inspector thus removed shall immediately hand over to the district national committee a certificate authorising him to carry out his inspection activities. The grounds for appeal are in particular:
(a) where the controller requests an appeal as a result of a delegation of another public office preventing him from carrying out his business properly or for other reasons;
(b) if it is found that the controller does not meet the conditions laid down for that function or fails to fulfil it properly,
(c) if they commit acts which render their continued residence as a civil controller undesirable.
(2) Where the district national committee considers that, for the reasons set out in points (b) or (c), a civil controller should be removed from its duties as a matter of urgency, the district national committee may withdraw his licence authorising him to carry out his inspection activities and further discuss his appeal with the elements which sent him to that office.
Obligations and rights of civil controllers.
(1) When checking retail outlets, civil inspectors shall check in particular:
(a) where the shop is adequately and smoothly supplied with goods,
(b) whether the shop takes over the supplier and sells only to the consumer goods complying with the quality regulations;
(c) where the goods are not held or sold by the seller only to certain consumers;
(d) if the instructions concerning the time of sale and the quantity of goods to be sold are not infringed;
(e) where the consumer receives the net weight of the goods and, to the right extent, if they are properly identified and adjusted in the sales office, the weight of the goods and whether the consumer is allowed to check the accuracy of the weighing or measurement and to check the weight or the level of the goods in the store itself;
(f) whether specified prices and price regulations are respected and where consumers are given the opportunity to consult the price list of national retail prices,
(g) if the shop always has enough small money and if the consumer is properly returned,
(h) whether the sales period is respected and whether it is satisfactory;
(i) whether the manner of performing and acting of the employees of the outlets to consumers complies with the requirements of socialist trade, provided that sufficient care is provided to the consumer, willingness and good advice on the goods requested;
(j) if the head of the store or the management of the business gives sufficient care to deal with complaints and consumer wishes and if the rules on wish and complaint books are complied with.
(2) When checking joint catering establishments, civil inspectors shall check in particular:
(a) if the head of the dining room, buffet or other joint dining establishment orders in a timely and sufficient quantity of food, beverages and prepared meals;
(b) where the joint-catering establishment produces a sufficient selection of meals of different kinds according to the specified range of minima;
(c) where portions are given to the consumer in doses corresponding to material standards or quantities calculated,
(d) whether price regulations are observed and whether the customer can be satisfied of the accuracy of the prices charged by looking at the prices of state retail prices;
(e) whether anyone who collects money from the consumer has a sufficient amount of small money to return and whether he returns small money without calling,
(f) whether the staff of canteens, buffets and other mass caterers give consumers sufficient care and willingness and serve them quickly, willingly and as they wish;
(g) where a wish and complaint book is kept in the dining room or buffet and where the comments made therein are timely and duly answered,
(h) where purity is respected in joint catering undertakings.
(3) Regional national committees may impose additional tasks on civil inspectors in the course of their activities.
(1) The Civil Controller has the right to request from the employees of stores or canteens sufficient explanation of the shortcomings found in their work, to be familiar with the documents on the goods and their price, and with the labour directives of stores and canteens issued by senior corporate bodies.
(2) If the deficiencies identified are in direct conflict with the rules on the work of the shop or dining room, the civil inspector may request immediate removal of the deficiencies from the manager of the store or dining room. If, in this way, it fails to rectify or establish that, in a sales or dining room, employees are in greater violation of the laws, resolutions and regulations of the Government, regulations on the work of stores and joint catering undertakings, it shall inform the Regional National Committee or the State Trade Inspection Authorities thereof by a brief record. The results of the check shall be recorded by the civil inspector in the inspection book of the store or establishment.
When carrying out the inspection, civil inspectors may enter the hand warehouses and any other premises directly linked to the unit being checked.
Responsibilities of national committees.
The Regional National Committee shall, in cooperation with the Single Trade Union Organisation and local national committees:
(a) to ensure that the necessary number of civil controllers are maintained and supplemented;
(b) organise training and instruction in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Internal Trade;
(c) to assist civil inspectors in the performance of their tasks in a universal manner.
Obligations of commercial undertakings.
Commercial undertakings shall be obliged to inform business and canteens of the tasks of civil controllers and to allow them to perform their duties properly and to participate with their representatives in regular instructions of civil controllers to evaluate the results of the inspection activities.
The Ministry of Internal Trade shall, in agreement with the participating central authorities and the Central Council of Trade Unions, issue detailed provisions for the implementation of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 April 1953; they shall be carried out by the Minister for Internal Trade in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Government Decree No. 21 / 1953 Coll., on Civil Trade Control |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 15.04.1953 |
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| Effective from | 15.04.1953 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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