HC Deb 27 September 1939 vol 351 c1392

Resolved, That on and after the twenty-eighth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, the rate of the duty of excise on sweets shall be increased from seven shillings and sixpence to nine shillings and sixpence per gallon in the case of sparkling sweets, and from one shilling and sixpence to three shillings and sixpence per gallon in the case of other sweets. 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."