Finance Act, 1924

Section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919, not to apply to unmanufactured tobacco.

24.—(1) Section 8 of the Finance Act, 1919 , in so far as that section applies to unmanufactured tobacco shall as from the 26th day of April, 1924, cease to apply to such tobacco, and on and after the date aforesaid the customs duty on unmanufactured tobacco shall in all cases be charged at the full rate of duty applicable thereto.

(2) For the purposes of this section the expression “manufactured tobacco” shall be substituted for the word “tobacco” in the Second Schedule to the Finance Act, 1919 , in the list of goods to which five-sixths of the full rate is made applicable as a preferential rate.