§ 15. Resolved, That the Excise Duties now payable on medicines shall, on and after the twenty-ninth day of September nine teen hundred and fifteen, until the first day of August nineteen hundred and six- 430 teen, be doubled, and a duty shall be charged on the first sale on or after the twenty-ninth day of September nineteen hundred and fifteen of any medicines on which the duty now payable has been paid equal to the amount of the duty originally paid.
§ And it is 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.—[The Chancellor of the Exchequer.]