{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2009/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2009/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/21",
  "legislation_title": "Health Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-act-2009",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Prohibition of advertising: exclusion for specialist tobacconists",
  "text": "In section 6 of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 (c. 36) (specialist tobacconists), before subsection (1) insert—\n“(A1) The appropriate Minister may provide in regulations that no offence is committed under section 2 if the tobacco advertisement—\n(a) is in, or fixed to the outside of premises of, a specialist tobacconist in England and Wales or Northern Ireland,\n(b) is not for cigarettes or hand-rolling tobacco, and\n(c) complies with any requirements specified in the regulations.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 partly in force; s. 20 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent see s. 40(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/18",
      "affecting_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/21/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:51.488045+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."
}