{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-regulations-1991/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-regulations-1991/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1530",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Procedure for determining statement of yields on packets of cigarettes",
  "text": "–\n(1) Where the Secretary of State considers, having tested cigarettes under regulation 9(1), that their tar yield or nicotine yield differs from that notified to him by a producer under regulation 9(2)(b) or (c), he may notify that producer–\n(a) that the tests do not confirm the accuracy of a yield so notified; and\n(b) of the tar and nicotine yields which the Secretary of State considers to be accurate.\n(2) On receiving notification under paragraph (1) relating to cigarettes a producer shall either–\n(a) within the period of one month beginning with the date on which he receives that notification, notify the Secretary of State in writing that he disputes the accuracy of a tar or nicotine yield notified to him by the Secretary of State under paragraph (1)(b); or\n(b) with effect from the date of expiry of the period of three months beginning with the date on which he receives that notification, provide, as the information which he is required by regulation 6 to provide on packets of those cigarettes, a statement of the tar and nicotine yields as notified by the Secretary of State under paragraph (1)(b).\n(3) A producer who notifies the Secretary of State under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) may make representations to him with a view to agreeing with him the correct tar and nicotine yields; and\n(a) if they reach agreement within the period of eight months beginning with the last date on which the notification could have been given under that sub-paragraph, the producer shall provide, with effect from three months after the date of the agreement, as the information which he is required by regulation 6 to provide, the statement of the tar and nicotine yields as so agreed;\n(b) if they do not reach agreement within that period, the producer shall provide, with effect from three months after its expiry, as the information which he is required by regulation 6 to provide, the statement of the tar and nicotine yields as notified by the Secretary of State under paragraph (1)(b) or, if different, the statement of the tar and nicotine yields most recently notified to him before the expiry of that period by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1530/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:41:53.168005+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."
}