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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-act-2017-commencement-no-5-order-2020/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2020/1048",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-wales-act-2017-commencement-no-5-order-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order made by the Welsh Ministers brings into force specified provisions of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017 (“the Act”).\nArticle 2(1) brings into force the following provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Act (smoking) on 29 September 2020, to the extent necessary for the purpose of enabling regulations to be made under those provisions—\nsection 6 which relates to the offence of failing to prevent smoking in smoke-free premises;\nsection 10 which relates to school grounds;\nsection 11 which relates to hospital grounds;\nsection 17 which relates to signs: smoke-free premises;\nsection 18 which relates to enforcement authorities;\nsection 27 which relates to fixed penalty notices;\nsection 28 which relates to interpretation of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Act; and\nSchedule 1 which relates to fixed penalties.\nArticle 2(2) brings into force section 15 (smoke-free vehicles) and section 16 (smoke-free premises: exemptions) of the Act on 29 September 2020.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1048/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:56.491432+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."
}