Article 6 Hand-rolling tobacco

United Kingdom

(1)

References to hand-rolling tobacco in the Act include any product that would, but for the reference to hand-rolling tobacco in article 7(1) below, be other smoking tobacco and—

(a)

in which more than 25% by weight of the tobacco particles have a cut width of less than F11.5 millimetres, or

(b)

that is sold or intended to be sold for making into cigarettes by hand, or

(c)

that is of a kind used for making into cigarettes by hand.

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

the references to “making into cigarettes by hand” in paragraph (1)(b) and (c) above include making into cigarettes by hand with the aid of a mechanical device, and

(b)

the use for making into cigarettes referred to in paragraph (1)(c) above must amount to more than occasional use but need not amount to common use.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in art. 6(1)(a) substituted (1.1.2011) by The Tobacco Products (Descriptions of Products) (Amendment) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2852), arts. 1, 2(2)