{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-display-wales-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-display-wales-regulations-2012/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2012/1285",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion (Display) (Wales) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-advertising-and-promotion-display-wales-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Display as a consequence of a requested display",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a requested display is made to an individual (“A”) aged 18 or over.\n(2) No offence is committed under section 7A(1) of the Act (prohibition of tobacco displays) by a display of tobacco products in a storage unit, to individuals other than A, if—\n(a) the display—\n(i) is solely as a consequence of the requested display, and\n(ii) lasts for no longer than is necessary to remove the requested product from the storage unit; and\n(b) the area of storage unit displayed does not exceed 1.5 square metres.\n(3) No offence is committed under section 7A(1) of the Act (prohibition of tobacco displays) by a display of tobacco products other than in a storage unit, to individuals other than A, if the display—\n(a) is solely as a consequence of the requested display; and\n(b) lasts for no longer than the requested display.\n(4) In this regulation, “the requested product” (“y cynnyrch sy'n destun cais”) means the product which A asked to purchase or for information about.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 7(B)(8) of the Act for the definition of a “requested display”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2026/124",
      "affecting_title": "The Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (Age of Sale Notices and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/1285/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:46:28.235057+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."
}