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.”