{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026/section-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026/section-81.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/18",
  "legislation_title": "Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-vapes-act-2026",
  "path": "section/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Purchase of vaping or nicotine products on behalf of under 18s",
  "text": "(1) The Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1907 (N.I. 26)) is amended as follows.\n(2) After Article 4H (inserted by section 80 of this Act) substitute—\n“Purchase of vaping or nicotine products on behalf of under 18s\n4I (1) It is an offence for a person aged 18 or over to buy, or attempt to buy, a vaping product or nicotine product on behalf of a person who is under the age of 18.\n(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this Article to prove that they had no reason to suspect that the other person was under the age of 18.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this Article is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.”\n(3) In Article 4A (purchase of tobacco or nicotine products on behalf of persons under 18)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “tobacco, cigarette papers or a relevant nicotine product” substitute “tobacco products, herbal smoking products or cigarette papers”;\n(b) in the heading, for “or nicotine products” substitute “etc”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 81 in force at 29.10.2026, see s. 175(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/18/section/81",
    "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."
}