{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-regulations-1991/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-labelling-safety-regulations-1991/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Visibility and position of warnings",
  "text": "–\n(1) In the case of tobacco products other than cigarettes, the general warning–\n(a) shall be printed on, or irremovably affixed to, a conspicuous place on each packet, on a contrasting background and in such a way as to be easily visible, clearly legible and indelible;\n(b) shall not in any way be hidden, obscured or interrupted by other written or pictorial matter.\n(2) In the case of cigarettes the general warning and a warning required by regulation 4(1) shall, each be printed on the packet–\n(a) clearly and legibly;\n(b) in bold letters on a contrasting background;\n(c) in a position where it is unlikely to be damaged when the packet is opened;\n(d) so as to cover an area amounting to at least 6 per cent. of the surface on which it is printed, such area to be defined by a right-angled polygon drawn closely round the periphery of the printed letters as shown in Figures 1 and 2 in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1947",
      "affecting_title": "The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Amendment Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1530/regulation/5",
    "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."
}