{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002-commencement-no7-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/3138",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 (Commencement No.7) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002-commencement-no7-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "(1) 21st December 2004 is the appointed day for the coming into force of section 2 of the Act in the case of a tobacco advertisement which is, or is to be, published, printed, devised or distributed solely for the purposes of the promotion of a tobacco product in a place where tobacco products are offered for sale.\n(2) 31st July 2005 is the appointed day for the coming into force of—\n(a) section 2 of the Act, other than in the case of a tobacco advertisement which is, or is to be, published, devised or distributed solely for the purpose of the promotion of a tobacco product on a website where tobacco products are offered for sale;\n(b) sections 3, 9 and 10 of the Act in so far as those sections are not already in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3138/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:14:44.557448+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."
}