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  Finance Bill - Rate of duty on spirits
  
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  <p> The Aye voters failed to pass an amendment to the <a href="http://http://www.england-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1997/ukpga_19970058_en_1">Finance Bill 1997</a> that would have deleted the following lines from the Bill:</p>
  
  <blockquote><i>"Rate of duty on spirits-</blockquote> 
  
  <blockquote>(1) In <a href="http://http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1979/cukpga_19790004_en_3#pt2-pb1-l1g5">section 5 of the [1979 c. 4.] Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979 (spirits)</a>, for âÂ£18.99â there shall be substituted âÂ£19.56â.</blockquote>
  
  <blockquote>(2) This section shall come into force on 1st January 1998."</i></blockquote> 
  
  <p>Consequently, we can see that the amendment would have stopped the increase in duty on spirits.</p>
   
  
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