Section 4C Display of warning notices in hospital buildings and on hospital groundsF1

The Health Board for the area in which a hospital is situated must conspicuously display no-smoking notices at every entrance to the hospital grounds.

The person having the management and control of a hospital building must conspicuously display no-smoking notices at every entrance to the building.

A no-smoking notice is a notice stating that it is an offence to smoke in the no-smoking area outside a hospital building or knowingly to permit smoking there.

The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision as to the manner of display, form and content of no-smoking notices.

A person who fails to display no-smoking notices in accordance with subsection (2) (and regulations made under subsection (4) insofar as they relate to the duty under subsection (2)) commits an offence.

A person who commits an offence under subsection (5) is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.