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Section 8F Sale of marked tobacco when not permitted: penalties.F1

(1)

This section applies if provision made by or under—

(a)

regulations made under section 8C above, or

(b)

a notice published under section 8D above,

provides for any tobacco products to carry a period of sale mark.

(2)

In this section—

  • “ a period of sale mark ” means a fiscal mark indicating any of the matters mentioned in subsection (2)(e) of section 8C above; and

  • “ prohibited time ”, in relation to tobacco products that carry a period of sale mark, means a time when, according to the mark, sale of the products is not permissible.

(3)

If—

(a)

a person sells by way of retail sale, or exposes for retail sale, any tobacco products that carry a period of sale mark, and

(b)

he so sells or exposes the products at a prohibited time,

his so selling or exposing the products shall attract a penalty under section 9 of the M1Finance Act 1994 (civil penalties) and the products are liable to forfeiture.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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Ss. 8A-8J inserted (28.7.2000) by 2000 c. 17, s. 14

Marginal citations

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1994 c. 9.