{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tobacco-retailer-fixed-penalty-amount-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule",
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  "legislation": "nidsr/2016/9780338003782",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Retailer (Fixed Penalty) (Amount) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tobacco-retailer-fixed-penalty-amount-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Amount of Fixed Penalty\n(1) Offence\n(2) Fixed Penalty\nAn unregistered person carrying on a tobacco business (section 10 (1) of the Act).\n£500.00\nA registered person carrying on a tobacco business at premises other than those noted in the person’s entry in the Register (section 10(2) of the Act).\n£500.00\nA person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 3 (duty to notify certain changes) (section 10(3) of the Act).\n£50.00\nA person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 8(2) (in relation to the display of a notice if subject to a restricted premises order) (section 10(7) of the Act).\n£100.00\nA person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 9(2) (in relation to removal of tobacco or cigarette papers from the retail area where a restricted premises order has effect) (section 10(8) of the Act).\n£500.00\nA person who sells to a person under the age of 18 any tobacco or cigarette papers, whether for his own use or not (Article 3 of the 1978 Order) .\n£250.00\nFailure to comply with a court order made in relation to the control of an automatic machine for the sale of tobacco (Article 4 of the 1978 Order).\n£250.00\nA person aged 18 or over who knowingly buys or attempts to buy tobacco or cigarette papers on behalf of a person under the age of 18 (Article 4A of the 1978 Order) .\n£250.00\nA person carrying on a retail business who sells cigarettes to any person other than pre-packed cigarettes in their original package (Article 4 of the 1991 Order).\n£250.00\nFailure to comply with the prohibition of the sale of tobacco from an automatic machine (Article 4A of the 1991 Order) .\n£250.00\nFailure to display a notice stating “It is illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18” in retail premises where tobacco is sold (Article 5 of the 1991 Order) .\n£100.00",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 3 was amended by the Children and Young Persons (Sale of Tobacco etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and section 18(2) of the Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 4A was inserted by section 18(3) of the Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 4A was inserted by section 23 of the Health Act 2009."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 5 was amended by the Children and Young Persons (Sale of Tobacco etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2016/9780338003782/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:40:44.953883+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."
}