Section 159 Additional smoke-free places in Northern IrelandI1

The Smoking (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2957 (N.I. 20)) is amended as follows.

For Article 5 substitute—

“Additional smoke-free places

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(1)

The Department may make regulations designating as smoke-free any place that—

(a)

is a workplace, or

(b)

is open to the public,

and is not smoke-free under Article 3.

(2)

If the place is used as a place of work or open to the public only some of the time the regulations must provide for it to be smoke-free only when so used.

(3)

The regulations may, in particular—

(a)

provide for places to be smoke-free, in specified circumstances, at specified times or if specified conditions are satisfied (or any combination of those);

(b)

provide for exceptions, which may be framed by reference to the designation by a person of areas which are not smoke-free.

(4)

Before making regulations under this Article the Department must consult any persons that the Department considers it appropriate to consult.”

In Article 6 (vehicles)—