{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2024/9780111060315",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Scotland) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-vapes-scotland-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“authorised purpose” means the purpose of determining whether an offence under regulation 4 has been or is being committed,\n“container” means a cartridge, pod, tank, capsule or other any other receptacle designed to hold a vaping substance and be used with a vape,\n“enforcement officer” means a person authorised under regulation 8,\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,\n“single-use vape” has the meaning in regulation 3,\n“supply” means supply, whether by sale or not, in the course of a business,\n“vape” means a device which—\n(a) vaporises substances, other than tobacco, for the purpose of inhalation through a mouthpiece (whether or not it also vaporises tobacco), and\n(b) is not a medical device within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 or a medicinal product within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012,\n“vaping substance” means a substance, other than tobacco, that is intended to be vaporised with a vape,\n“vaporises” includes aerosolises and “vaporised” is to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39. Section 2 was amended by paragraph 232(1) of schedule 22 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/618, relevantly amended by S.I. 2008/2936."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/1916 to which there are no relevant amendments."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111060315/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:09.021454+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}