{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/134",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke-Free (Signs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-free-signs-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Smoke-Free (Signs) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 30th April 2007.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Order” means the Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006;\n“entrance” means an entrance for use by persons;\n“no-smoking symbol” means a symbol which consists of a graphic representation of a single burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle of at least 75 millimetres in diameter with a red bar across it;\n“smoke-free premises” means all public places and workplaces other than those that are exempt by virtue of regulations made under Article 4 of the Order; and\n...",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.2.2022) by virtue of The Smoke-Free (Private Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/328), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 30.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/134/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:42:04.691938+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."
}