# Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005, Section 4C: Display of warning notices in hospital buildings and on hospital grounds


(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.
(2) The person having the management and control of a hospital building must conspicuously display no-smoking notices at every entrance to the building.
(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.
(4) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make further provision as to the manner of display, form and content of no-smoking notices.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/13/section/4C (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/smoking-health-and-social-care-scotland-act-2005/section-4C
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