{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-4A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1907",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978",
  "path": "article/4A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Purchase of tobacco etc on behalf of persons under 18",
  "text": "(1) A person aged 18 or over who knowingly buys or attempts to buy tobacco products, herbal smoking products or cigarette papers on behalf of a person under the age of 18 shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 4A inserted (6.4.2016) by Tobacco Retailers Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 4), ss. 18(3), 25(2); S.R. 2016/101, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 4A(1) substituted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), ss. 81(3)(a), 175(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 4A heading substituted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), ss. 81(3)(b), 175(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 4A: power to amend conferred (1.6.2017) by Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 26), ss. 1(6)(b), 20(3); S.R. 2017/91, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Art. 4A: power to amend conferred (1.6.2017) by Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (NorthernIreland) 2016 (c. 26), ss. 1(6)(a), 20(3); S.R. 2017/91, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/18",
      "affecting_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1907/article/4A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:42:57.809351+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."
}