{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-descriptions-of-products-order-2003/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-descriptions-of-products-order-2003/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1471",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products (Descriptions of Products) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-descriptions-of-products-order-2003",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Chewing tobacco",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, references to chewing tobacco in the Act include any product that—\n(a) is not cigarettes, cigars, hand-rolling tobacco, or other smoking tobacco,\n(b) consists of or includes tobacco, and\n(c) has been prepared so that it can be chewed.\n(2) References to chewing tobacco in the Act include any product prepared for chewing that does not include tobacco but consists in whole or in part of a substitute for tobacco, except for such a product that is intended solely as an aid to persons to give up smoking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1471/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:22:57.606346+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."
}