{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-2012/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-2012/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1536",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 1st October 2012.\n(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n(a) “the Act” means the Health Act 2006;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) “smoke-free premises” means all public premises and workplaces which are smoke-free by virtue of section 2 or 4 of the Act, other than those exempt by virtue of regulations made under section 3 of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 1(3)(b) omitted (1.10.2015) by virtue of The Smoke-free (Private Vehicles) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/286), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.10.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/765, Part 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1536/regulation/1",
    "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."
}