{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tobacco-products-and-nicotine-inhaling-products-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tobacco-products-and-nicotine-inhaling-products-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111174203",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tobacco-products-and-nicotine-inhaling-products-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002",
  "text": "(1) The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 is amended as follows.\n(2) Omit section 2(4) (prohibition of tobacco advertising in the EEA).\n(3) In section 3A(1) (advertising: information society services)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), omit “or”;\n(b) omit paragraph (b).\n(4) In section 4(1) (advertising: exclusions)—\n(a) in paragraph (c)—\n(i) for “in a country which is not an EEA State”, substitute “outside the United Kingdom”;\n(ii) for “one or more of the EEA States (or any part of them)”, substitute “the United Kingdom (or any part of the United Kingdom)”;\n(b) in paragraph (d)—\n(i) for “an EEA State”, substitute “the United Kingdom”;\n(ii) for “one or more EEA States (or any part of them)”, substitute “the United Kingdom (or any part of the United Kingdom)”.\n(5) In section 5 (advertising: defences)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after “section 3A(1)(a)”, omit “or (b)”;\n(b) omit subsection (3A);\n(c) in subsection (5)(c), for “an EEA State”, substitute “the United Kingdom”;\n(d) omit subsection (5A).\n(6) Omit section 7D(3) (displays on a website).\n(7) Omit section 8(1A) (displays: Scotland).\n(8) Omit section 9(1A) (prohibition of free distributions).\n(9) Omit section 11(5) (brandsharing).\n(10) In section 21(1) (interpretation), omit the definition of “EEA State”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 2(4) was substituted by S.I. 2006/2369."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 3A was inserted by S.I. 2006/2369."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 4(1) was amended by S.I. 2006/2369."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 5 was amended by S.I. 2006/2369."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 7D was inserted by section 21 of the Health Act 2009 (c.21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Subsection (1A) was inserted by paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 2009."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Subsection (1A) was inserted by paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 2009."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Subsection (5) was substituted by paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 2009."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "The definition of “EEA State” was inserted by S.I. 2006/2369."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111174203/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:30.120735+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."
}