{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-manufacturing-machinery-licensing-scheme-regulations-2018/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-manufacturing-machinery-licensing-scheme-regulations-2018/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco Products Manufacturing Machinery (Licensing Scheme) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-products-manufacturing-machinery-licensing-scheme-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Eligibility",
  "text": "The Commissioners may grant a licence to a person to carry out a regulated activity only if the Commissioners are satisfied that the person—\n(a) is a fit and proper person to carry out the regulated activity, and\n(b) will not use an item of tobacco products manufacturing machinery for the purpose of, or with a view to, the fraudulent evasion of the duty of excise charged on tobacco products under section 2(1) of the Tobacco Products Duty Act 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 2(1) was amended by Part 3 of Schedule 19 to the Finance Act 1981 (c. 35)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/75/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:12.604328+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."
}