{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-16.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/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person guilty of an offence under section 15(1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under or by virtue of any other provision of this Act is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both, or\n(b) on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or a fine, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16(1A) repealed (12.11.2009) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), s. 40(5)(a), Sch. 4 para. 9(2), Sch. 6 (with Sch. 4 para. 9(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2)(a) substituted (12.1.2010) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), s. 40(7)(b), Sch. 4 para. 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 wholly in force at 14.2.2003; s. 16 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 22(1)(2); s. 16 wholly in force at 14.2.2003 by S.I. 2002/2865, art. 2(2)(i); S.S.I. 2002/512, art. 2(2)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/36/section/16",
    "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."
}