{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-20.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/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions: sponsorship",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate Minister may make regulations providing that, subject to the satisfaction (or continuing satisfaction) of any conditions specified in the regulations, section 10 is not to apply before a date so specified to a sponsorship agreement of a description so specified.\n(2) The date specified may not be later than 1st October 2006.\n(3) If, by virtue of regulations under this section, section 10 does not apply to a sponsorship agreement, the doing of anything as a result of that agreement is not an offence under any provision of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 22(1)(2); s. 20 in force for the purpose of making regulations at 20.11.2002 by S.I. 2002/2865, art. 2(1)(d); S.S.I. 2002/512, art. 2(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 25.2.2003 for S. so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2003/113, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 26.2.2003 for E.W.N.I. so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/396, art. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/36/section/20",
    "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."
}