Part I Excise Duties

Alcoholic liquor duties

3 Rates of duty on wine and made-wine.

(1)

For Part I of the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the M1Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979 (wine and made-wine of a strength not exceeding 22 per cent.) there shall be substituted—

“Part I Wine or made-wine of a strength not exceeding 22 per cent.

Description of wine or made-wine

Rates of duty per hectolitre

£

Wine or made-wine of a strength not exceeding 4 per cent.

46.01

Wine or made-wine of a strength exceeding 4 per cent. but not exceeding 5.5 per cent.

63.26

Wine or made-wine of a strength exceeding 5.5 per cent. but not exceeding 15 per cent. and not being sparkling

149.28

Sparkling wine or sparkling made-wine of a strength exceeding 5.5 per cent. but less than 8.5 per cent.

161.20

Sparkling wine or sparkling made-wine of a strength of 8.5 per cent. or of a strength exceeding 8.5 per cent. but not exceeding 15 per cent.

213.27

Wine or made-wine of a strength exceeding 15 per cent. but not exceeding 22 per cent.

199.03

(2)

This section shall come into force on 1st January 1999.”