{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoke-free-exemptions-and-vehicles-regulations-2007/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoke-free-exemptions-and-vehicles-regulations-2007/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110757353",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-smoke-free-exemptions-and-vehicles-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Other residential accommodation",
  "text": "(1) A designated room that is used as accommodation for persons aged 18 years or over in the premises specified in paragraph (2) is not smoke-free.\n(2) The specified premises are—\n(a) care homes as defined in section 3 (care homes) of the Care Standards Act 2000;\n(b) hospices which as their whole or main purpose provide palliative care for persons resident there who are suffering from progressive disease in its final stages; and\n(c) prisons.\n(3) In this regulation “designated room” means a bedroom or a room used only for smoking which—\n(a) has been designated in writing by the person having charge of the premises in which the room is situated as being a room in which smoking is permitted;\n(b) has a ceiling and, except for doors and windows, is completely enclosed on all sides by solid, floor-to-ceiling walls;\n(c) does not have a ventilation system that ventilates into any other part of the premises (except any other designated rooms);\n(d) is clearly marked as a room in which smoking is permitted; and\n(e) except where the room is in a prison, does not have any door that opens onto smoke-free premises which is not mechanically closed immediately after use.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110757353/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:18:29.546999+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."
}