{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/36",
  "legislation_title": "Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Meaning of “tobacco advertisement” and “tobacco product”",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“tobacco advertisement” means an advertisement—\n(a)whose purpose is to promote a tobacco product, or\n(b)whose effect is to do so, and\n“tobacco product” means a product consisting wholly or partly of tobacco and intended to be smoked, sniffed, sucked, chewed or consumed in any other way.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (29.4.2026) by Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18), ss. 138, 176(2)(a) (with ss. 140, 166)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 wholly in force at 14.2.2003; s. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 22(1)(2); s. 1 in force for the purpose of making regulations at 20.11.2002 by S.I. 2002/2865, art. 2(1)(a); S.S.I. 2002/512, art. 2(1)(a); s. 1 in force in so far as not already in force at 14.2.2003 by S.I. 2002/2865, art. 2(2)(a); S.S.I. 2002/512, art. 2(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/36/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:53.212916+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."
}