{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/507",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "No advertising of electronic cigarettes in the press etc.",
  "text": "(1) No person may in the course of a business publish, or procure the publication of, an electronic cigarette advertisement in a newspaper, periodical or magazine.\n(2) No person may in the course of a business sell, offer for sale or otherwise make available to the public a newspaper, periodical or magazine containing an electronic cigarette advertisement.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply—\n(a) to a newspaper, periodical or magazine which is intended exclusively for professionals in the trade of electronic cigarettes or refill containers; or\n(b) to a newspaper, periodical or magazine which is printed and published in a third country and is not principally intended for the relevant market.\n(4) In this regulation “the relevant market”—\n(a) in relation to Great Britain, means the market in Great Britain;\n(b) in relation to Northern Ireland, means the Union Market.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 42(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/41, reg. 6(27)(a) (as substituted by The Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1316), regs. 1(3), 3(32) (with reg. 5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 42(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/41, reg. 6(27)(b) (as substituted) by The Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1316), regs. 1(3), 3(32) (with reg. 5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/507/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:36:22.754234+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."
}