{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemption for persons employed in trade",
  "text": "Nothing in Article 3 or 5 shall—\n(a) make it an offence to sell tobacco products, herbal smoking products or cigarette papers to, or\n(b) authorise the seizure of tobacco products, herbal smoking products or cigarette papers in the possession of,\nany person who is at the time employed by a manufacturer of, or dealer in, tobacco products or herbal smoking products, either wholesale or retail, for the purposes of his business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 6 substituted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), s. 175(1), Sch. 14 para. 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(a) inserted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), s. 175(1), Sch. 14 para. 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(b) inserted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), s. 175(1), Sch. 14 para. 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 6 inserted (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), s. 175(1), Sch. 14 para. 7(c)"
    }
  ],
  "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/nisi/1978/1907/article/6",
    "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."
}