{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005/section-4C",
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  "legislation": "asp/2005/13",
  "legislation_title": "Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/4C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4C",
  "heading": "Display of warning notices in hospital buildings and on hospital grounds",
  "text": "(1) 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.\n(2) The person having the management and control of a hospital building must conspicuously display no-smoking notices at every entrance to the building.\n(3) 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.\n(4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision as to the manner of display, form and content of no-smoking notices.\n(5) 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.\n(6) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 4A-4D inserted (2.3.2022 for specified purposes, 5.9.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Health (Tobacco, Nicotine etc. and Care) (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 14), ss. 20(2), 36(2); S.S.I. 2022/43, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/13/section/4C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:22.162612+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."
}