{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-duty-act-1979/section-8F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-duty-act-1979/section-8F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/7",
  "legislation_title": "Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-duty-act-1979",
  "path": "section/8F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8F",
  "heading": "Sale of marked tobacco when not permitted: penalties.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if provision made by or under—\n(a) regulations made under section 8C above, or\n(b) a notice published under section 8D above,\nprovides for any tobacco products to carry a period of sale mark.\n(2) In this section—\n“ a period of sale mark ” means a fiscal mark indicating any of the matters mentioned in subsection (2)(e) of section 8C above; and\n“ 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.\n(3) If—\n(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\n(b) he so sells or exposes the products at a prohibited time,\nhis so selling or exposing the products shall attract a penalty under section 9 of the Finance Act 1994 (civil penalties) and the products are liable to forfeiture.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 8A-8J inserted (28.7.2000) by 2000 c. 17, s. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1994 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/7/section/8F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:39:34.742244+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."
}