{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standardised-packaging-of-tobacco-products-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standardised-packaging-of-tobacco-products-regulations-2015/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/829",
  "legislation_title": "The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standardised-packaging-of-tobacco-products-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Permitted colour or shade of packaging of hand rolling tobacco",
  "text": "(1) No person may produce or supply any hand rolling tobacco in breach of any of the provisions of this regulation or Schedule 3 (exceptions to paragraphs (2) and (3)).\n(2) The only colour or shade permitted on or for the external packaging of a unit packet or container packet of hand rolling tobacco is Pantone 448 C with a matt finish, but this is subject to paragraph (4), Schedule 3 and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 4.\n(3) The only colour or shade permitted on or for the internal packaging of a unit packet or container packet of hand rolling tobacco is either—\n(a) white, or\n(b) Pantone 448 C with a matt finish,\nbut this is subject to paragraph (4), Schedule 3 and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 4.\n(4) Nothing in paragraph (2) or (3) prohibits any warning, statement, text, picture, image, symbol or marking which is required by any enactment (whenever passed or made) other than these Regulations or required by the Commission Implementing Regulation; but see paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 which imposes conditions in relation to any text required in accordance with regulation 7(4)(a)(i) of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 (name and address of producer).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(4) inserted (20.5.2019) by The Tobacco Products (Traceability and Security Features) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/594), regs. 1(1), 25(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/829/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:02.442717+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."
}