PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2000

No.4 of 2000.
Certified on: 07.06.00

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.
Amendment of Schedule 1.

AN ACT
entitled
Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2000,
Being an Act to amend the Excise Tariff Act (Chapter 107).
MADE by the National Parliament to be deemed to have come into operation on 4 April 2000.
AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULE 1.
Schedule 1 of the Principal Act is amended by repealing the rates of excise duty in respect of the Tariff Items in the following table shown in the rates of duty column and replacing them with the rates of excise duty shown below: -
TARIFF ITEM	DESCRIPTION OF GOODS	NEW RATE OF EXCISE DUTY	
22.08	Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80%; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages	200%	
24.02	Cigarettes of tobacco or tobacco substitutes	240%	
2403.10.10	Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco substitutes in any proportion	40%	
2403.10.30	Chewing tobacco	150%	
2403.10.40	Snuff	150%	
2403.10.50	Twist / Trade tobacco	40%	
2403.91.00	"Homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco	150%	

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2000 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
I hereby certify that the Excise Tariff (Amendment) Act 2000 was made by the National Parliament on 4 April 2000.
Speaker of the National Parliament.
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