{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026/schedule-18/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026/schedule-18/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/18",
  "legislation_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 7 is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) An authorised officer of the appropriate council may—\n(a) enter and search any no-smoking premises in order to ascertain whether an offence under section 1, 2 or 3 has been or is being committed there;\n(b) enter and search any vape-free premises in order to ascertain whether an offence under Chapter 2 has been or is being committed there;\n(c) enter and search any heated tobacco-free premises in order to ascertain whether an offence under Chapter 3 has been or is being committed there.”\n(3) Omit subsection (1A).\n(4) In subsection (3)(a)(i), for “section 1, 2, 3, 4A, 4B or 4C(5)” substitute “Chapter 1, 2 or 3”.\n(5) In subsection (5), for the definition of “the appropriate council” substitute—\n““the appropriate council” means the council in the area in which those premises are.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 176(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/18/schedule/18/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:55.816893+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."
}