{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-personal-social-services-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 2",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“cigarette papers” includes anything intended to be used for encasing tobacco products or herbal smoking products for the purpose of enabling them to be smoked;\n“filter” means a filter that is intended to be used when smoking a tobacco product or herbal smoking product (including a filter that forms part of, or that is intended to be inserted into, an item such as a cigarette holder or pipe);\n“herbal smoking product” means a product consisting wholly or partly of vegetable matter and intended to be smoked but not containing tobacco;\n“medical device” has the meaning given by the Medical Devices Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/618);\n“medicinal product” has the meaning given by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1916);\n“nicotine product” has the meaning given by Article 7A;\n“premises” means any place (including a vehicle or moveable structure);\n“retail packaging”, in relation to a thing, means the packaging in which it is, or is intended to be, presented for sale by retail;\n“sell” means sell by retail;\n“tobacco product” means a product consisting wholly or partly of tobacco and intended to be smoked, sniffed, sucked, chewed or consumed in any other way;\n“tobacco related device” means—\n(a)a device, other than a vape, which enables a tobacco product to be consumed (for example, a heated tobacco device or pipe), or\n(b)an item which is intended to form part of such a device;\n“tobacco retailer” means a person who carries on a business involving the sale of tobacco products by retail;\n“vape” means—\n(a)a device which—\n(i)vaporises substances, other than tobacco, for the purpose of inhalation through a mouthpiece (whether or not it also vaporises tobacco), and\n(ii)is not a medical device or a medicinal product, or\n(b)an item which is intended to form part of a device within paragraph (a) (including anything intended to be attached to it with a view to imparting flavour);\n“vaping product” means—\n(a)a vape, or\n(b)a vaping substance;\n“vaping substance” means a substance, other than tobacco, that is intended to be vaporised by a vape;\n“vaporises” includes aerosolises;\n“vehicle” means every type of vehicle, including a vessel, aircraft and hovercraft.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 7, 7A and cross-heading substituted for art. 7 (29.10.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), ss. 86, 175(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1907/article/7",
    "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."
}