Regulation 1 Title, commencement, application, effect and interpretation

(1)

The title of these Regulations is the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display) (Wales) Regulations 2012 and they will come into force—

(a)

for the purpose of large shops, other than bulk tobacconists, on 3 December 2012; and

(b)

for all other purposes, on 6 April 2015.

(2)

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

(3)

These Regulations do not apply to specialist tobacconists^f1.

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation—

“large shop” (“siop fawr”) means a shop which has a relevant floor area exceeding 280 square metres; and
“relevant floor area” (“arwynebedd perthnasol y llawr”), in relation to a shop, means the internal floor area of so much of the shop as consists of, or is comprised in, a building but excluding any part of the shop which is used neither for the serving of customers in connection with the sale of goods nor for the display of goods.

Annotations

f1: See section 6(2) and (3) of the Act for the definition of “specialist tobacconist”.