{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026-consequential-transitional-and-saving-provisions-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2026/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026-consequential-transitional-and-saving-provisions-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2026 and come into force in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) This regulation and regulations 2 to 6 come into force on 29 October 2026.\n(3) Regulations 7 to 9 come into force on 29 October 2026 immediately after the coming into force of section 68 and schedule 8 of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (alignment of definition of “vaping product”).\n(4) Regulation 10 comes into force on 1 January 2027.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "This is to align with the coming into force of section 69 and the paragraphs in schedule 9 of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (c. 18) (“the 2026 Act”) which come into force immediately after the coming into force of section 68 and schedule 8 of that Act as per regulation 2(1) of the Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/210 (C. 22)). Section 68 and schedule 8 of the 2026 Act come into force on 29 October 2026 by virtue of section 175(1) of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/213/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:29:40.381530+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."
}