Part I Excise Duties

Tobacco products duty

9 Rates of duty.

1

For the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the M1Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 there shall be substituted—

1. Cigarettes

An amount equal to 20 per cent. of the retail price plus £62.52 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£91.52 per kilogram.

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£85.94 per kilogram.

4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco

£40.24 per kilogram.

2

This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o’clock in the evening of 28th November 1995.