12 Rates of tobacco products duty.U.K.
(1)For the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the M1Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 substitute—
“ TABLE
1. Cigarettes | An amount equal to 22 per cent. of the retail price plus £90.43 per thousand cigarettes. |
2. Cigars | £132.33 per kilogram. |
3. Hand-rolling tobacco | £95.12 per kilogram. |
4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco | £58.17 per kilogram.” |
(2)This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 21st March 2000.