6Repeal of spirits duty on certain methyl alcohol
(1)Methyl alcohol, notwithstanding that it is so purified or prepared as to be potable, shall not be deemed for the purposes of the Customs and Excise Act, 1952, to be spirits nor be chargeable with the customs and excise duties on spirits, nor shall naphtha or any mixture or preparation containing naphtha or methyl alcohol and not containing spirits within the meaning of that Act.
(2)Methyl alcohol shall be included among the alcohols mentioned in subsection (2) of section one hundred and fifteen of that Act (which empowers the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for the purpose of protecting the revenue arising from the said duties to make regulations relating to those alcohols).
(3)This section shall have effect as from the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight.