{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-2.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/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition of tobacco advertising",
  "text": "(1) A person who in the course of a business publishes a tobacco advertisement, or causes one to be published, in the United Kingdom is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who in the course of a business prints, devises or distributes in the United Kingdom a tobacco advertisement which is published in the United Kingdom, or causes such a tobacco advertisement to be so printed, devised or distributed, is guilty of an offence.\n(3) Distributing a tobacco advertisement includes transmitting it in electronic form, participating in doing so, and providing the means of transmission.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/41), regs. 1, 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2 restricted (31.10.2012 for specified purposes, 6.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/246), art. 1(1)reg. 9 (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 2 restricted (N.I.) (6.4.2015) by The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Specialist Tobacconists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/244), regs. 1(1), 2 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 partly in force; s. 2 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 22(1)(2); s. 2 in force for certain purposes at 14.2.2003 and for certain further purposes at 14.5.2003 by S.I. 2002/2865, art. 2(2)(b)(3)(a) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/258, art. 2(3)-(6)) and S.S.I. 2002/512, art. 2(2)(b)(3)(a) (with art. 3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2003/80, art. 2(3)-(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 21.12.2004 for specified purposes for S. by S.S.I. 2004/546, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 21.12.2004 for specified purposes for E.W.N.I. by S.I. 2004/3138, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 31.7.2005 for specified purposes for E.W.N.I. by S.I. 2004/3138, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 31.7.2005 for specified purposes for S. by S.S.I. 2004/546, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I6",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 26.9.2006 for E.W.N.I. so far as not already in force by S.I. 2006/2372, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I7",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 28.9.2006 for S. so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2006/473, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/36/section/2",
    "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."
}