{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1536",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations revoke the Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) and replace the detailed requirements for no smoking signs prescribed by the 2007 Regulations with a requirement that at least one legible no-smoking sign must be displayed.\nRegulation 2 requires at least one legible no-smoking sign to be displayed in smoke-free vehicles.\nRegulation 3 requires at least one legible no-smoking sign to be displayed in smoke-free premises.\nRegulation 4 revokes the 2007 Regulations.\nA full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available on the Department of Health website at: http://transparency.dh.gov.uk/category/transparency/ias/ and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1536/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:28:59.666454+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."
}