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Mechanical Lighters (Customs)

Volume 360: debated on Tuesday 23 April 1940

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Resolved,

"That, as from the twenty-ninth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty, the rate of the duty of customs chargeable under Section six of the Finance Act, 1928, on any mechanical lighter and on any component part of a mechanical lighter, other than a flint, shall be increased to three shillings and sixpence.
And it is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that this Resolution shall have statutory effect under the provisions of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act, 1913."