{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-amendment-regulations-1993/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1947",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Amendment Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-amendment-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (visibility and position of warnings) for paragraph (1) there is substituted the following paragraph:—\n“(1) In the case of tobacco products other than cigarettes the general warning and a warning required by regulation 4A(1), 4B(1) or 4C—\n(a) shall be printed on, or irremovably affixed to, each packet;\n(b) shall each cover an area amounting to at least 1.5 per cent. of the total surface of the packet, such area to be defined by a right-angled polygon drawn closely round the periphery of the printed letters in the same way as is shown in respect of packets of cigarettes in Figures 1 and 2 in Schedule 2;\n(c) shall be easily visible, clearly legible and indelible;\n(d) shall appear in a conspicuous place on a contrasting background; and\n(e) shall not in any way be hidden, obscured or interrupted by other written or pictorial matter.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1947/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:36.888337+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."
}