Finance Act, 1918

Increased Customs duties on sugar.

9.(1) In lieu of the present Excise duties, drawbacks, and allowance in respect of sugar, molasses, glucose, and saccharin there shall as from the twenty-third day of April nineteen hundred and eighteen be charged, levied, and paid the duties specified in the second column of Part I. of the Third Schedule to this Act, and there shall be paid and allowed the drawbacks and allowance set out in Part II. of the Schedule.

(2) The provisions of Part III. of the First Schedule to the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1915, shall apply to the Excise duties under this section.