{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-7A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-act-2002/section-7A.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/7A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7A",
  "heading": "Prohibition of tobacco displays",
  "text": "( 1 ) A person who in the course of a business displays tobacco products, or causes tobacco products to be displayed, in a place in England and Wales or Northern Ireland is guilty of an offence.\n(2) The appropriate Minister may by regulations provide for the meaning of “place” in this section.\n(3) The appropriate Minister may by regulations make provision for a display in a place which also amounts to an advertisement to be treated for the purposes of offences in England and Wales or Northern Ireland under this Act—\n(a) as an advertisement and not as a display, or\n(b) as a display and not as an advertisement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 7A-7D inserted (12.11.2009 for specified purposes, 6.4.2012 for E. for specified purposes, 31.10.2012 for N.I. for specified purposes) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 21, 40(1), 40(6)(b); S.I. 2010/1068, art. 2(1A)(a) (as amended (9.5.2011) by S.I. 2011/1255, art. 2(a)(b)); S.R. 2012/389, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7A(1) restricted (N.I.) (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), regs. 4-7 (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 7A(1) 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), 3 (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/36/section/7A",
    "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."
}