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Section 20 Prohibition of advertising: exclusion for specialist tobacconistsI1I2I3I4

England and Wales

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In section 6 of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 (c. 36) (specialist tobacconists), before subsection (1) insert—

“(A1)

The appropriate Minister may provide in regulations that no offence is committed under section 2 if the tobacco advertisement—

(a)

is in, or fixed to the outside of premises of, a specialist tobacconist in England and Wales or Northern Ireland,

(b)

is not for cigarettes or hand-rolling tobacco, and

(c)

complies with any requirements specified in the regulations.”

Annotations

Commencement

I1

S. 20 partly in force; s. 20 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent see s. 40(6)(b)

I2

S. 20 in force at 6.4.2015 for E. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2010/1068, art. 2(2)(a)

I3

S. 20 in force at 6.4.2015 for N.I. in so far as not already in force by S.R. 2012/389, art. 2(2)(a)

I4

S. 20 in force at 6.4.2015 for W. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2012/1288, art. 3(a)