Part 1Excise duties

Tobacco products duty

1Rates of tobacco products duty

1

For the Table of rates of duty in Schedule 1 to the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979 (c. 7) substitute—

Table

1. Cigarettes

An amount equal to 22 per cent of the retail price plus £96.88 per thousand cigarettes.

2. Cigars

£141.10 per kilogram.

3. Hand-rolling tobacco

£101.42 per kilogram.

4. Other smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco

£62.03 per kilogram.

2

This section shall be deemed to have come into force at 6 o'clock in the evening of 9th April 2003.